On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:30 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to restart cupsd but get this error, > >> > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo service cups restart > >> Stopping cups: [FAILED] > >> Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 1! > >> [FAILED] > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ > >> > >> How do I kill a child. > >> > > ---- > > sounds bad...don't ask it that way. > > > > ps aux|grep cups > > > > Is there something running? > > > > Haven't we been down this path before? > > > > Craig > > > > > Yes Craig we have visited a cups problem a month or so ago, > Cups worked well until a large update down loaded then printing > stopped. > > [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo ps aux|grep cups > david 7774 0.0 0.0 4044 676 pts/1 S+ 09:19 0:00 grep cups > [david@reddwarf ~]$ > > I looked through 'ps aux' and didn't find anything (not that means anything) > of a cups child. ---- let's look at cups/error_log then. tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/error_log Craig
