On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 10:02 +0800, 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. Works-for-me, as expected: [root@tabb1 ~]# service cups status cupsd (pid 4531) is running... [root@tabb1 ~]# service cups stop Stopping cups: [ OK ] [root@tabb1 ~]# service cups start Starting cups: [ OK ] [root@tabb1 ~]# service cups stop Stopping cups: [ OK ] [root@tabb1 ~]# service cups stop Stopping cups: [FAILED] [root@tabb1 ~]# service cups restart Stopping cups: [FAILED] Starting cups: [ OK ] [root@tabb1 ~]# service cups restart Stopping cups: [ OK ] Starting cups: [ OK ] Are you up2date with cups? Has been rather dynamic of late: [root@tabb1 ~]# grep cups /var/log/yum.log Dec 18 10:48:32 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.1 Dec 18 10:50:17 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.1 Dec 18 10:50:28 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.1 Dec 23 23:42:57 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.2 Dec 23 23:43:03 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.2 Dec 23 23:43:18 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.2 Jan 11 08:12:07 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.3 Jan 11 08:12:21 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.3 Jan 11 08:12:32 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.3 Jan 20 07:48:24 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.4 Jan 20 07:48:34 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.4 Jan 20 07:48:40 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.4 and have a look at "rpm -qi --changelog cups"! Have seen cups die due to errors in the config files in the past. Phil
