All Printers Have Disappearred

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:38 -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

cupsd is not running even though it is enabled in services. I tried:

> sudo /etc/init.d/cups

but the prompt comes back without any messages of any kind. But still no
cupsd running.

I can't find any error messages in the cups log for today.

Rick B.