problem with cups

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Antoine Defontaine wrote:

> When I changed all 631 occurences to become 8631 in cupsd.conf, cupsd 
> could start indeed. There is no log problem anymore. It seems to be the 
> problem.

Printing should work too now on localhost.

If it is a server serving other clients, it will work for the clients too,
if they all are changed to port 8631. ( KDEPrint might need to be configured
to this port too: kprinter --> System Options... --> CUPS server --> CUPS
Server Settings --> Server Information --> Port )

> But, tell me if I am wrong, I will have the change them back to 631 (and 
> consequently find out the conflicting one in NIS)

Try to disable NIS.
Start CUPS normally (with port 631).
Start NIS after that.

If it works, you might be able to fix it by changing startup timing of
different services. And don't forget to complain with the NIS developers
if it is really guilty of stealing this "well known port"      ;-)

> to be able to print 
> again. If so, I will see with the network administrator on Monday. If it 
> should work with 8631 (but I don't thing so), I still have a problem 
> since it is not working.
> 
> Just let me know.
> 
> Anyway, thanks very much for your help.
> Antoine

Cheers,
Kurt

>> From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle at danka.de>
>> Reply-To: "For users and developers of KDEPrint, the KDE 
>> printingarchitecture" <kde-print at mail.kde.org>
>> To: kde-print at mail.kde.org
>> Subject: Re: problem with cups
>> Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 14:51:00 +0200
>>
>> 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
>>
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