Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/9/06, Manuel McLure <manuel@××××××.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi Brett,
> >    Yes, I zapped it and tried restarting it but I get complaints.
>
>
> Try
>
> pgrep cupsd
>
> and see if there's a PID listed. If so, do
>
> pkill cupsd
> /etc/init.d/cupsd zap
> /etc/init.d/cupsd start

Good so far:

mark@lightning ~ $ su -
Password:
lightning ~ # pgrep cupsd
8015
lightning ~ # pkill cupsd
lightning ~ # /etc/init.d/cupsd zap
lightning ~ # /etc/init.d/cupsd start
 * Starting cupsd ...                                                     [ ok ]
lightning ~ #

I then go to http://localhost:631 and choose Manage Printers. I see
both printers which are on the network. One is on my son's FC2
machine, and is currently default. I also see the printer on the Mac.
I clock on the Mac printer's 'Set as default' button. I'm taken to a
page that says:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access the resource on this server.

This doesn't happen on the 'Print Test page' button. That one
correctly sends a test page to each printer. However all other buttons
result in the message above. The used to allow me to type in a
password and do what I needed.

I'm still quite concerned that the cupsd config files are hosed. As
I've said there is nothing in the printers.conf file except a couple
of header lines.

>
> What's probably happened is that etc-update updated the
> /etc/init.d/cupsd script so it changes the location where it stores the
> PID it has to kill when you do a "stop", therefore running
> /etc/init.d/cupsd fails to kill the actual cupsd process. Since a cupsd
> is already running (the old cupsd) you can't start a new one since
> they'd compete for ports.
>
> For this reason I usually do a "/etc/init.d/<service> stop" before
> allowing etc-update to update any file in /etc/init.d, and then start it
> again after the update.


Probably a good idea.

Thanks,
Mark

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