All Printers Have Disappearred

[NoOp]

On 10/21/2009 07:06 PM, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 16:50 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 10/21/2009 04:45 PM, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:42 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>>> On 10/21/2009 07:00 AM, R. A. Bilonick wrote: ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> cupsd is not running even though it is enabled in services. I
>>>>> tried:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> sudo /etc/init.d/cups
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> $ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
>>>> 
>>>> You should get back a response like this: $ sudo
>>>> /etc/init.d/cups restart [sudo] password for <username>: *
>>>> Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd   [ OK ]
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is what happens:
>>> 
>>> chippy at dell-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart [sudo]
>>> password for chippy: chippy at dell-desktop:~$
>>> 
>>> So nothing appears to happen. The file /etc/init.d/cups exists - 
>>> otherwise I would get an error message.
>>> 
>>> Should I try re-installing cups?
>> 
>> That will probably be the easiest. But you might want to find out
>> why it borked in the first place. Check your /var/log/cups logs to
>> see if you can figure out what the issue is.
>> 
> 
> 
> The cups access log and the error log are empty. The old logs don't
> seem to show anything useful.

If you need printers now, then just reinstall:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall cups

But given that it's probably a borked config file, you might want to
purge cups first:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge cups
$ $ sudo apt-get install cups

Just be aware that any special config files that you had will be removed
in the process & you'll be starting from scratch w/regards to cups.

Before doing any of the above, what do you show for:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups status

Should show:
Status of Common Unix Printing System: cupsd is running.