Hi all! I send this to the list, since I don't know who is responsible for this kind of problems :-) I updates CUPS as you can see from /var/log/messages:
Jan 15 10:15:49 sertov2 perl: [RPM] libcups1-1.1.18-1.1mdk installed Jan 15 10:15:49 sertov2 perl: [RPM] libcups1-1.1.14-2mdk removed Jan 15 10:15:49 sertov2 perl: [RPM] libcups1-devel-1.1.18-1.1mdk installed Jan 15 10:15:49 sertov2 perl: [RPM] libcups1-devel-1.1.14-2mdk removed Jan 15 10:15:50 sertov2 perl: [RPM] cups-common-1.1.18-1.1mdk installed Jan 15 10:15:51 sertov2 perl: [RPM] cups-common-1.1.14-2mdk removed Jan 15 10:15:55 sertov2 perl: [RPM] cups-1.1.18-1.1mdk installed Jan 15 10:16:04 sertov2 cups: cupsd shutdown succeeded Jan 15 10:16:08 sertov2 kernel: lp0: compatibility mode Jan 15 10:16:08 sertov2 last message repeated 2 times Jan 15 10:16:14 sertov2 cupsd: cupsd: Child exited with status 99! Jan 15 10:16:15 sertov2 cups: cupsd startup succeeded [root@sertov2 root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status cupsd is stopped Trying to restart it, implies that cups reports a "failed" when shutting down and "ok" when starting up, but it says "stopped" when I ask the status. I have both cups and cups-lpd started at boot time on my printerserver, and samba+netatalk are present too. The only thing I could find in /var/log/cups/error_log is E [15/Jan/2003:10:15:59 +0100] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to 7f000001:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to 8d6cff04:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to 8d6c106c:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to 8d6c1515:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to 8d6cf8d4:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to 8d6cff06:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to a0a0102:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Listening to a0a0004:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Sending browsing info to 8d6c10ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Sending browsing info to 8d6c15ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Sending browsing info to 8d6cf9ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Sending browsing info to 8d6cffff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Sending browsing info to a0a01ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Sending browsing info to a0a00ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Relaying from 8d6cff00/ffffff00 to 8d6c10ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Relaying from 8d6cff00/ffffff00 to 8d6c15ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Relaying from 8d6cff00/ffffff00 to 8d6cf9ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Relaying from 8d6cff00/ffffff00 to 8d6cffff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Relaying from 8d6cff00/ffffff00 to a0a01ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Relaying from 8d6cff00/ffffff00 to a0a00ff:631 I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] Allowing up to 10 client connections per host. I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:07 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1021 PPDs... I [15/Jan/2003:10:16:08 +0100] LoadPPDs: Wrote "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 1021 PPDs... E [15/Jan/2003:10:16:14 +0100] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested address. Downgrading to 8.2 "original" packages, server comes back working fine! Thanks, Claudio --
