All Printers Have Disappearred

[NoOp]

On 10/21/2009 04:45 PM, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:42 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 10/21/2009 07:00 AM, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
>> ...
>> > 
>> > cupsd is not running even though it is enabled in services. I tried:
>> > 
>> >> sudo /etc/init.d/cups
>> > 
>> 
>> $ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
>> 
>> You should get back a response like this:
>> $ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
>> [sudo] password for <username>:
>>  * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd   [ OK ]
>> 
>> 
> 
> This is what happens:
> 
> chippy at dell-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
> [sudo] password for chippy: 
> chippy at dell-desktop:~$ 
> 
> So nothing appears to happen. The file /etc/init.d/cups exists -
> otherwise I would get an error message.
> 
> Should I try re-installing cups?

That will probably be the easiest. But you might want to find out why it
borked in the first place. Check your /var/log/cups logs to see if you
can figure out what the issue is.