I had no problem until yesterday. It has likely been a number days since I last used it, and maybe a system update was performed in the interim, but nothing major.
In the GUI System Settings, Printers I try -localhost -connect I get a window "cups server error: There was an error during the cups operation: 'failed to connect to server'. Next I tried: sudo systemctl restart cups.service. Msg is: "failed to restart cups.service: unit cups.service is masked" Next I tried: sudo systemctl stop cups.service: no messages in response. A repeat of: sudo systemctl restart cups.service. Msg is the same: "failed to restart cups.service: unit cups.service is masked" Next effort: systemctl list-unit-files generates a 16kbyte list of 310 unit files. There are 4 cups entries; all showing a state of masked: cups.path, cups.service, cups-browsed.service, and cups.socket A table in the docs indicates that masked means "Completly disabled, so that any start operation on fails (permanently in /etc/systemd/system/ or transiently in /run/systemd/systemd/" /etc/systemd/system/ has the 4 files listed above, all of zero length. /run/systemd/systemd/" does not exist. (doc. misprint?) /run/systemd/system/" exists but has nothing that means anything to me. Does all this info help anyone with suggestions? Running Ubuntu 16.04. Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
