CUPS will not start

[jpkirk]

Getting down to the minutia of printing....

I have an HP color laserjet CM1312nfi. I would like to print to it through CUPS, just cuz. (I am open to other suggestions) It is network connected, networking is up (hey, even wireless is easy, nice).

Here is the error I get when I do:

root@bt:~# /etc/init.d/cups start
Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 1!
failed!

I am using a Dell Latitude D830 with an install on the hdd. Oddly, CUPS will start on this system when I run in Live mode.

Suggestions, thoughts, rants? Do I need to supply more info?

[Archangel-Amael]

Start with this guide from ubuntu.
Also check your logs at /var/log/cups for more info on the problem.

[jpkirk]

OK, figured it out. Well... maybe not figured it out, but Cups runs and that is all I need.

Thanks to Archangel for the lead to the logs, well duh! I should have checked it out. Anyway ...

Here is the error from /var/log/cups

E [18/Jan/2010:17:02:08 -0500] "/etc/cups/ssl/server.crt" is a bad symlink - No
such file or directory

Bad symlink. looking at this, it turns out...

/etc/cups/ssl/server.crt -> /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem

/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem did not exist. Hmm, am I going to have to gen a cert? But it says "snakeoil". Hmmmm.

touch /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem

Go figure. Cups now runs. Thanks again.

[brtw2003]

hi,

this should fix the issue:

cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
/etc/init.d/cups start

If you still have issues with ssl certs:

apt-get install --reinstall ssl-cert

On a laptop and if you travel, it's a good thing not having cupsd running the whole time in
background - therefore (remember this basic security baseline for any listening network services!)

update-rc.d -f cups remove

/brtw2003

[justanoob]

@brtw2003
You rock