All Printers Have Disappearred

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:28 -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> I'm running the 9.04 with the latest patches on a Dell 15n laptop. I've
> been using 9.04 for the last several months since I bought the laptop. I
> had 4 or 5 printers installed. This morning when I tried to print
> something I discovered that ALL the printers I had installed have
> completely disappeared from the program Printing in System /
> Administration. Should I just re-install all the drivers or try to
> recover some other way?
> 
> Rick B.
> 
> 

I checked /etc/cups/printers.conf and all the printer entries are still
there but I get an error message if I try:

chippy at dell-desktop:~$ lpr
lpr: Error - scheduler not responding!
chippy at dell-desktop:~$ 

lpr -P ML-2250 -J "/etc/cups/printers.conf"

No response from this command.

If I try to print from nedit editor I get:

Unable to print:
lpr: connection refused

Any ideas?

Rick B.