Thanks to all who replied. I finally tracked the problem to the fact that my loopback interface in file /etc/hosts "disappeared". (Peter, you were on the right track). I don't know why it vanished, but it did, so I manually edited the file and restored it. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, you need a line in /etc/hosts that looks something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.utopia.com localhost Output of "/sbin/ifconfig" now shows the loopback interface working: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:276 (276.0 b) TX bytes:276 (276.0 b) best regards, Robert On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:10:36 -0500 Peter Arremann <loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list