On Friday 28 January 2005 21:02, Robert Storey wrote: > Dear all, > > An odd thing I've noticed about Fedora 3 is that I can stop the cups > daemon from running, but I can't start or restart it (unless I reboot): > > root@sonic:~> cd /etc/init.d > root@sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups stop > Stopping cups: [ OK ] > root@sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups start > Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 99! > [FAILED] > root@sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups restart > Stopping cups: [FAILED] > Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 99! > > I'm just wondering is anybody knows why this is so? I've tried other > Linux > distros and haven't encountered this particular issue before. Is there anything more in the /var/log/messages log file? What printers do you have configured? Can you send your /etc/hosts and ifconfig -a output? Thanks, Peter.
