[ale] Printer problems

[Scott Castaline]

That was going to be my next suggestion to reinstall cupsys and possibly
the print driver(s). It does apparently appear to point to an accidental
removal on an unrelated update. I've had that happen a couple of times.

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 15:52 -0500, Vikram Nanda wrote:
> Got it working-  looks like cupsys got uninstalled during one of the
> updates. I reinstalled it and my printer is working.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Vikram Nanda wrote: 
> > 
> > Ran the command  (sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart ) - no
> > output/error  on the screen
> > 
> > ps -ef | grep -i cup
> > abs       8314  7914  0 15:43 pts/4    00:00:00 grep -i cup
> > 
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/cupsys uses DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cupsd
> > 
> > 
> > > ls -l /usr/sbin/cupsd
> > ls: /usr/sbin/cupsd: No such file or directory
> > 
> > I am using kubuntu ... I am not sure if this thing happened when the
> > kdebase got reinstalled day before yesterday
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Scott Castaline wrote: 
> > > Just realized my awsh_t! it should be the 2nd cmd that Brian mentions..
> > > sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
> > > 
> > > Sorry. Watch for errors.
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 15:08 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > >   
> > > > cupsd is in /usr/sbin, which should be in Ubuntu's default path. Try 
> > > > sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart.
> > > > 
> > > > You might want to take a look and see if your problem is mentioned 
> > > > anywhere at 
> > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-cups-manager/+bugs 
> > > > or https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bugs
> > > > 
> > > > -Brian
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