Re: [gentoo-amd64] printing has stopped

[Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>]

On Friday 07 December 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007 6:33 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > This is weird, all of a sudden my printing has stopped working. Now
> > I'm not sure if this is as a result of updates or I have finger
> > trouble (probably this).
> > Anyway it appears that cups isn't working, I get this error:-
> > An error occurred while loading http://localhost:631/printers:
> > Connection to host localhost is broken.
> >
> > I have reinstalled cups, restarted cupsd,checked cups.conf and it
> > seems ok so I think I have done something that has affected
> > localhost, but I can't find anything wrong.
> > Here is my /etc/hosts:-
> >
> > # IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
> > #127.0.0.1      localhost
> > 127.0.0.1       PC2.HOMENET     PC2     localhost
> > #::1    localhost
> >
> > I just don't know what to do next, any help appreciated
<snip>
> I had problems recently with updates to cups. I think I had to
> uninstall my printer and then reinstall it. Don't really remember.
>
> Linux printing - the least fun thing about Linux. ;-)
>
> - Mark

Thanks for the reply Mark.
I have this error in the error_log:-
I [07/Dec/2007:16:08:23 +0000] Full reload complete.
I [07/Dec/2007:16:08:23 +0000] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3...
I [07/Dec/2007:16:08:23 +0000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 
4...
I [07/Dec/2007:16:08:35 +0000] commptr=""
I [07/Dec/2007:16:08:35 +0000] 
Started "/usr/lib64/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=9388)
E [07/Dec/2007:16:08:35 +0000] PID 9388 
(/usr/lib64/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) stopped with status 22!
I [07/Dec/2007:16:08:35 +0000] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" 
to find out more.

Any ideas?????
Thanks
Paul

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