-------- Original Message -------- From: Joe Morris (NTM) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed 15 Aug 2007 10:13:44 AM EST
> On 08/15/2007 07:27 AM, Dave Barton wrote: >> Hmm... looks like serious corruption somewhere. As root and user, I have >> tried every possible variation of lppasswd and all I get is: >> "lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied" >> Consequently http://localhost:631 returns a 404 error. >> > Check the permissions on /etc/cups/passwd.md5. File doesn't exist. Tried copying it over from backup I made prior to uninstall and reinstall, set permissions to root -rw-r---- but still no joy. > Is this an upgrade? No, reformat and reinstall. Have reinstated a few personal preferences to /home from backup. >> In the past I have never had to mess with cups. I have just set it up >> and it works. Now this and numerous other issues I have had getting 10.2 >> working properly, is frustrating the hell out out of me. >> >> Can anyone offer any suggestions how to resolve this? >> > There are some pretty big differences between the 10.2 cups (1.2.7) and > previous versions. Search the SDB for more info. OR, uninstall cups, > wipe out the /etc/cups directory, then reinstall fresh. I suspect it > will work then. BTW, at least one other file in that directory is owned > by ghostscript, so be careful. As mentioned in my original post "I have tried uninstalling cups, deleting previous cups configurations and reinstalling to no avail." (twice in fact). I had previously searched the SDB, but found nothing there which helped resolve this issue. Thanks for trying to help Joe, but it looks like I am am going to have to do things the Windows way and scrape the hdd to start all over again. %&*!(# it !!! Dave
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