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On Dec 7, 2007 6:33 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> This is weird, all of a sudden my printing has stopped working. Now I'm |
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> not sure if this is as a result of updates or I have finger trouble |
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> (probably this). |
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> Anyway it appears that cups isn't working, I get this error:- |
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> An error occurred while loading http://localhost:631/printers: |
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> Connection to host localhost is broken. |
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> I have reinstalled cups, restarted cupsd,checked cups.conf and it seems ok |
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> so I think I have done something that has affected localhost, but I can't |
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> find anything wrong. |
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> Here is my /etc/hosts:- |
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> |
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> # IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases |
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> #127.0.0.1 localhost |
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> 127.0.0.1 PC2.HOMENET PC2 localhost |
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> #::1 localhost |
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> |
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> I just don't know what to do next, any help appreciated |
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> Paul |
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Possibly it jsut crashed? Is cups running? |
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lightning ~ # /etc/init.d/cupsd status |
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* status: started |
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lightning ~ # |
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lightning ~ # cat /var/log/cups/error_log |
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I had problems recently with updates to cups. I think I had to |
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uninstall my printer and then reinstall it. Don't really remember. |
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Linux printing - the least fun thing about Linux. ;-) |
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- Mark |
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