problem with cups

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Antoine Defontaine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using a Linux machine with Suse 8.1 distribution and kde 3.0.
> Up to few days ago, I had no problem for printing. I used to print on
> network printers using kprinter.
> I have made all the installations using yast2 and rpms.
> 
> But cupsd does not start anymore now.
> I have tried to launch it manually (as root) but I got the following error
> message:
> "cupsd: child exited with status 98!".
> Using yast2, i can not access to the printer configuration panel. It tries
> to call for lpq which crashes (i have to kill it manually) twice and
> afterwards (after two successive kills of lpq) it says:
> "the cups daemon has stopped during installation".
> If I suppress cups programs (again with yast2), I can acces to the printer
> configuration panel. It asks what I'd like to do and I can redo the
> printer installation as I did at the beginning (it reinstalled cups) but
> with no effect; it is still defective.
> Another point that may be of interest (i don't know but it may have an
> influence, I am far from being a expert), we have set up a small linux
> network for 5/6 machines the NIS stuff and NFS stuff and some centralised
> utilities. Can this be a cause (i have heard there may be something to
> change in the cupsd.conf file but I don't knows what)?
> Anyway, I may have done something wrong since it used to work but it
> doesn't anymore.
> 
> Can u help?
> Cheers
> Antoine
> 
> I am using version 1.15-46 of cups.
> Here is the /var/log/cups/error_log message i got:
> 
> I [02/May/2003:11:15:35 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:15:35 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:15:48 +0200] LoadPPDs: Wrote "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739
> PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:15:53 +0200] Added remote printer "lw8"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:15:54 +0200] Added remote printer "lw5recto"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:00 +0200] Added remote printer "deskjet_6122"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:07 +0200] Added remote printer "lw4"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:16 +0200] Added remote printer "lw5"...
> E [02/May/2003:11:16:16 +0200] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:16 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:16 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:16 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739
> PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:16 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:17 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:17 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:17 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739
> PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:16:17 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> E [02/May/2003:11:16:17 +0200] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:04 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:04 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:04 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739
> PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:04 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:09 +0200] Added remote printer "lw4"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:18 +0200] Added remote printer "lw5"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:26 +0200] Added remote printer "lw8"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:27 +0200] Added remote printer "lw5recto"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:17:33 +0200] Added remote printer "deskjet_6122"...
> E [02/May/2003:11:18:19 +0200] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:19 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:19 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:19 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739
> PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:19 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:20 +0200] Added remote printer "lw5"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:20 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:20 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:20 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739
> PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:20 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> E [02/May/2003:11:18:22 +0200] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:22 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:22 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:22 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739 PPDs...

BTW -- this is all "LogLevel info". Change to "LogLevel debug" in cupsd.conf
if you want to track the problem down....

> I [02/May/2003:11:18:22 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:28 +0200] Added remote printer "lw8"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:29 +0200] Added remote printer "lw5recto"...
> I [02/May/2003:11:18:35 +0200] Added remote printer "deskjet_6122"...
> E [02/May/2003:11:18:38 +0200] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
> I [02/May/2003:11:20:02 +0200] Listening to 0:631
> I [02/May/2003:11:20:02 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [02/May/2003:11:20:03 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1739
> PPDs...
> I [02/May/2003:11:20:05 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> E [02/May/2003:11:20:06 +0200] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Address already in use.

Here is the problem. Another program seems to have stolen "well known
port" 631 from underneath CUPS's a..

To verify the problem and its cause, edit all occurences of "631" to
become "8631" in cupsd.conf and try to restart it from the command line.

Does cupsd start now?

If yes try to hunt down the guilty one of your NIS programs...

Cheers,
Kurt