All Printers Have Disappearred - Resolved!

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:06 -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> 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.

OK, when I went to re-install cups using synaptic, I noticed that cups
was no longer installed. When I marked it for installation, I knew
immediately what had happened. The day before I had installed xpdf and
xpdf-utils. xpdf-utils somehow conflicts with cups (and foolishly I
didn't notice). I installed cups and lo and behold, cups is working
again and I can access all my printers as before (without having to
re-configure anything).

Thanks to NoOps for things to try.

Rick B.