On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:01, Jacob Shreffler wrote: [...] > It appears that I don't have cupsd running, so I try to start the CUPS > service: > # /etc/init.d/cups start > cupsd: Child exited with status 99! > cups: started scheduler. [ OK ] > > cupsd is still not a process! An error like this repeatedly appears in > /var/log/cups/error_log: > E [01/Dec/2003:17:50:36 -0500] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - > Cannot assign requested address. > > 'nmap localhost' does not show port 631 (ipp) to be open. > What have I overlooked? Do I need port 631 open to print? Do I need > cupsd? Any ideas? Do you have anything weird at the end of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, like a "Listen xx.xx.xx.xx ppp" line whose IP address is not your own? I have this problem all the time. Remove the line where cupsd tries to listen on a non-local IP and cupsd starts fine. HTH.
