CUPS printing problem

[Mitch Thompson]

golfer wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Marcus <lists at wordit.com> wrote:
>> I just installed Dapper a few days ago and I'm very pleased with Kubuntu
>> :-) (I used to use standard Debian, or Knoppix.)
>>
>> The only problem is with printing. According to "ps -e" cupsd is
>> running, but KDE printing shoes a dialog saying the CUPS server is not
>> running. I've no idea what to do about this one.
> 
> Try opening konsole and entering:
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys status
> 
> If it reports it's down, use
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start
> 
> to start it.  It should be started on boot up.  If it's not working
> correctly, try reinstalling:
> 
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install cupsys
> 
> regards,
> 

I, too, am having problems with CUPS, although it did work at one time.
 Here's what I get when I run the command 'sudo apt-get --reinstall
install cupsys':

mitch at colossus:/var/log$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install cupsys
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 4 not
upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up cupsys (1.2.0-0ubuntu5) ...
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
                                                 cupsd: Child exited
with status 1!
invoke-rc.d: initscript cupsys, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing cupsys (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cupsys
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Could you, or anyone, please point me where to go?  I've tried
uninstalling anything related to CUPS and reinstalling, but this is
where it stops.

Thanks in advance!

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Mitch Thompson, San Antonio, Texas//WB5UZG
Red Hat Certified Engineer