[solved] ups not working

Al Black al-black at telus.net
Mon Apr 20 05:13:42 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 23:34 -0600, Al Black wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> It seems seems that cups isn't working on my installation.  I'm running
> intrepid 8.10 on an AMD 64 with Gnome on my desktop.  
> 
> According to synaptic cups and all the proper libraries are installed,
> but when try to fire up http://localhost:631 I page load error.  When I
> look at the services that are running, cups is not even listed.  ps -aux
> from term also shows that its not running.
> 
> Does anybody have some suggestions on what may be go on, or some ideas
> on how diagnose and/or solve the problem?

After much poking around and cleaning things up from a previous printer
install, sudo cupsd worked like a charm.

al





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