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. > > best regards, > Robert Hi there, Just to let you know that you are not insane, I have started experiencing the same thing of late. My problem is that when cups tries to start at boot time, I get the same message and /var/log/messages is not any more informative. My success is that I can manually start cups by doing a "service cups start" after the fact. I just haven't had time to further track it down. I will say that it started showing up after I tried "sharing" the printer to my VMWare Guest Windows XP system. I tried defining the sharing through system-config-printer GUI. I also glanced at the configuration using the http://localhost:631/ URL but didn't change anything. BTW, the sharing is working but the annoyance at reboot time started up after I tried adding sharing... Sorry I can't be of more help, but perhaps you have been tinkering in the same area? --Rob
