Problems with cups and printing

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, 2007-26-07 at 10:59 -0400, Peter N Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Within the past two days, cups appears to have flown south. It fails to
> recognize my HP 6540 anymore. All is properly plugged in. But while I
> can delete the printer from gnome-cups-manager, I can't set it up
> again. The program just hangs. I've looked at error-log
> in /var/log/cups, and find it's giving me an extraordinarily long
> string of the following: 
> 
> cupsAddCert: Unable to create certification file /var/run.cups/certs/0
> - Too many open files
> Unable to accept client connection -- Too many open files
> 
> How can I remedy this? At the moment, no files are open or in the print
> queue.
> 
> Pete
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Did you restart cups?  
==> sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

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