Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 19:25 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: But how did that configuration file get messed up? The only thing I remember doing on the day it stopped working was trying to share the printer on my home network... I don't know. You'd need to look in the system journal (journalctl)

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 22:24 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: I decided to remove CUPS and reinstall it. There were some strange dependencies that got removed including Google Chrome. Once I reinstalled CUPS, however, it started working properly again, and I can once more print. Thanks for the

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-16 Thread Claude Jones
On 04/16/2014 03:52 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: We might still be able to find out what the problem was. CUPS logs errors to the /var/log/cups/error_log file. Can you take a look there and see why it was stopping so quickly after being started? there are a lot of errors - hard to say - here's a

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 April 2014, Claude Jones sent: I decided to remove CUPS and reinstall it. There were some strange dependencies that got removed including Google Chrome. Once I reinstalled CUPS, however, it started working properly again, and I can once more print. I am amazed

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 4-16-14 23:03:10 Tim wrote: So, trying to remove it would completely kill an installation. Not quite: $ sudo dnf erase cups ... Dependencies resolved. Package Arch Version

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 08:18 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: X [15/Apr/2014:00:01:10 -0400] No valid Listen or Port lines were found in the configuration file. This was the reason. For what it's worth, in future CUPS will log to the system journal by default so this message would appear in the

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-16 Thread Claude Jones
On 04/16/2014 12:01 PM, Tim Waugh wrote: Claude Jones wrote: X [15/Apr/2014:00:01:10 -0400] No valid Listen or Port lines were found in the configuration file. But how did that configuration file get messed up? The only thing I remember doing on the day it stopped working was trying to share

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-15 Thread Claude Jones
On 04/15/2014 09:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Does it die if you try to start cupsd manually from the command line? [root@meimei ]# /usr/sbin/cupsd -f for example I decided to remove CUPS and reinstall it. There were some strange dependencies that got removed including Google Chrome. Once I