[ubuntu-za] Daemons no longer automatically starting viz apt-cacher-ng and cups
Frank Kusel
frankk at ansys.co.za
Fri Jan 8 09:04:18 GMT 2010
Chris Schoonbee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering whether anyone had seen a similar problem (described
> below) in the last two or three weeks. I am also hoping that someone
> can give me a clue as to how to fix it.
>
> Both apt-cacher-ng and cups printing had been working with no problems
> for me since installation. But then suddenly the update manager started
> complaining about not being able to connect to the repositories.
> Aptitude showed the same problem when I tried to update manually. I
> tracked down the problem to being due to the apt-cacher-ng daemon not
> running. So I ran the command :
> sudo /etc/init.d/apt-cacher-ng start
> This sorted out the problem but I then found I had to rerun it after
> every bootup whenever I wanted to use apt etc.
>
> I have not fiddled with anything so I thought an update might have
> caused it and I was hoping that a later update would resolve it but that
> has not yet happened.
>
> Then I encountered a similar with cups which made me think a more
> general problem was occurring. I had not used my printer over the
> Christmas period but a few days ago encountered an error trying to
> print. I found out that no printers were "connected" (neither my
> Brother nor my cups-pdf). I discovered that cups was not running and
> this reminded my of my problem with apt-cacher-ng. So I used a similar
> command
> sudo /etc/init.d/cups start
> and this resulted in the printers showing up again in the printing manager.
>
> But again I have to run this command every time after bootup.
>
> My Linux foo does not extend to knowing how to fix this permanently ie
> make the programs start automatically again. There may also be other
> daemons that are not starting up anymore but that I am unaware of.
>
> Does anyone have any hints for me? Or seen anything similar?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
Silly question - have you still got enough space on your hard drive?
Regards,
Frank
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