Created at 11:14 Jun 24, 2005 by steve, last modified at 11:38 Jun 24, 2005
Your printing system is acting funny and you don't know why. You can't access printers, you can't use the web interface, you aren't allowed remote access, everything your system should be doing, it's not. All the settings you've made in the cupsd.conf file are being erased. Your printing system has gone on strike. What do you do?
This is usually caused by the Linux cups-config-daemon program, which overwrites changes to the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file with whatever defaults they have assigned for your security configuration.
Run the following commands as root to disable this program:
/sbin/chkconfig cups-config-daemon off ENTER
I have this situation on my system, but it is because of something I changed using the Configure server option under my Print system desktop tab. I am now denied access and can't do anything with CUPS. My local printer that was working just fine, is now no longer found in my Print Manager display, and I can nolonger define any new printer since all Backend selections are greyed out. I caused this once before, but I do not wish to reinstall Linspire just to get CUPS back to normal. Any ideas? Reply
Let me know what version of CUPS you are using and send me your cupsd.conf file. Reply
I was able to correct my problems simply by shutting down the CUPS daemon and then restarting properly. I also edited my cupsd.conf file changing things back to the normal defaults, before I did the restart. It took me a while to understand that restarting the daemon was the only way to manually effect changes, else the system reestablishes the previous error condition. I guess this means Linux saves its current status at shutdown and reestablishes everything, even incorrect cupsd.conf options. Reply