<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 04292006 1639 GMT-6 Ok, this is the output: <pre>~$ sudo tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:35 -0500] Listening to c0a80002:631 I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:35 -0500] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:35 -0500] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:35 -0500] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:35 -0500] Full reload is required.</pre> <pre>E [29/Apr/2006:13:02:35 -0500] LoadAllClasses: Unable to open /etc/cups/classes.conf - No such file or direct ory</pre> <pre>I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:37 -0500] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 4104 PPDs... I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:39 -0500] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... I [29/Apr/2006:13:02:42 -0500] Full reload complete.</pre> <pre>E [29/Apr/2006:13:02:42 -0500] StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address c0a80002:631 - Cannot assign requested address.</pre> <pre>I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:13 -0500] Listening to 7f000001:631 I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:13 -0500] Listening to c0a80002:631 I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:13 -0500] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:13 -0500] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:13 -0500] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:13 -0500] Full reload is required.</pre> <pre>E [29/Apr/2006:16:39:13 -0500] LoadAllClasses: Unable to open /etc/cups/classes.conf - No such file or directory</pre> <pre>I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:14 -0500] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 4104 PPDs... I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:14 -0500] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... I [29/Apr/2006:16:39:14 -0500] Full reload complete.</pre> <pre>E [29/Apr/2006:16:39:14 -0500] StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address c0a80002:631 - Cannot assign requested address.</pre> Wade albi wrote: <blockquote cite="mid4453CB8B.4060702@scii.nl" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Wade Smart wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">04292006 1503 GMT-6 I can open Sys > Admin > Print because the cups server wont start. type in lpq and I get: unable to contact server. type in ps auxw: 1000 8687 0.0 0.0 3056 756 pts/0 S+ 15:03 0:00 grep cups </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> please try the following : set LogLevel value in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to "debug" e.g. : - open a terminal - type in : gksudo gedit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf - then type : - sudo tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log - open another tab in the terminal and type : sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys stop sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start look at the output of the logfile and report back here </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>