Is CUPS running on your system? Run the following commands in a terminal
window and post the output here:

ps auxwww | grep cupsd
lpstat -r
sudo /etc/init.d/cups start

Now CUPS should be running. Start system-config-printer again. Now you
should be able to add a printer.

If CUPS does not start during boot, make sure you have all updates for
Lucid installed. If updating does not help, uninstall plymouth. See bug
554172. If these instructions solve your problem your bug is a duplicate
of that bug.

Otherwise, please check whether your account is in the "lpadmin" group,
also attach the files /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/printers.conf,
/etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd, /etc/samba/smb.conf

Also supply an error_log as described in the "CUPS error_log" section of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems. This could show
problems of the CUPS daemon perhaps erroring out or crashing shortly
after the start.


** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Package changed: system-config-printer (Ubuntu) => cups (Ubuntu)

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Add printer disabled, even for root/admin
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