On Saturday 04 January 2003 23:17, william stinson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I some how appear to have mucked up the CUPS printing facility on my box
> (probably due to some configuration error I must have made recently). It
> was working fine before. The symptom appears to be that the daemon cannot
> bind to the socket (port 631 I suppose).
I found the answer in an article about CUPS on mandrake forum. The URL is
http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2507&lang=en
"I had a problem with cups dying after start, I also use DHCP with a cable
modem.
The /var/log/cups/error_log reported that it could not bind to port.
I went to /etc/cups/cupd.conf and found that in addition to localhost,
cups was also trying to use my IP address, the one first found during install
and my hostname. I removed all entries for anything other than my localhost
127.0.0.1 and Voila! a working printer. "
My problem was the same - cups was using my ethernet address on my local network as
well as localhost and trying
to connect to port 631 of both. The connection to localhost was working fine but it
couldn't connect to the ethernet address and was therefore aborting.
With the cups configuration file changed to remove all references to my ethernet IP
address everything worked!
Best regards
William
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