All Printers Have Disappearred

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 16:50 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 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.
> 


The cups access log and the error log are empty. The old logs don't seem to show anything useful.

Rick B.