Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>   
>>>> I do have cupsd running as shown previously.
>>>>         
>>> I haven't read the whole thread,
>>> but I haven't seen any evidence that cupsd is running on your machine.
>>>
>>> What is the output of "ps aux | grep cups" ?
>>>
>>> Also what is the result of "telnet localhost 631"?
>>> And "telnet 127.0.0.1 631"?
>>>
>>>       
>>>> My present problem is getting it to accetp the root password
>>>>         
>>> I'm not sure what you mean.
>>> If cupsd is running then you should be able to browse to localhost:631
>>> without giving the superuser password.
>>>
>>> I strongly suspect your problem is much simpler than you think.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Timothy...you're not helping
>>
>> his packages are screwed up from a completely out of control yum.repos.d
>> folder
>>
>> He needs to fix that, and then update his packages to obtain sanity.
>>     
>
> What you say may well be true.
> But I doubt if it has anything to do with his cups problem.
> If cupsd is running then the problem with cups 
> is likely to be something very simple -
> eg perhaps the line "Listen localhost:631" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> has somehow got deleted.
>
> As far as the problem with yum.repos.d is concerned,
> I would have recommended running "grep enabled=1 /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo"
> and seen what repos were enabled (probably very few),
> and disabling all except fedora and fedora-updates.
>
> As far as cups is concerned, I would run "service cups restart"
> and then look in /var/log/cups/error_log
> to see what was reported there.
>
>
>
>
>
>   
Cups restarts ok.

This the last lines after running 'service cups restart'

E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2437!
E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2438!
E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2439!
E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2440!
E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2441!
E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2442!
E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2443!
I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Full reload complete.
I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Cleaning out old temporary files in 
"/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 4...
I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on 
fd 5...
I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Resuming new connection processing...
E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate 
"/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
(END)                                     

This line is repeated every few seconds.

E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2437!

  david