[KLUG Members] CUPS inaccessible/XSane error

[Nikolas Reist]

Most Distros allow you to issue service restart commands (i.e. SuSE - #/etc/init.d/cups restart, Ubuntu $sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart).  These will envoke cupsd as if started by the system at boot.  Did you compile the kernel yourself, or was it an automated update?  If the proper USB support was not built correctly during compilation it would make sense that your USB printer would not work.  Also, if your printer driver required kernel modules being compiled on install, you may need to rebuild them with each kernel rebuild.

----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
To: The main KLUG mailing list. <members at kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2006 11:36:24 PM
Subject: [KLUG Members] CUPS inaccessible/XSane error

Hello All,
    After a recent kernel upgrade I was unable to print from any
application, unable to access the CUPS utility via
<http://localhost:631>, and unable to access the scanner. What I did
after a little research was issue "cupsd" from a root shell which
solved the printing problem. For the scanner I ended up reinstalling
the driver from Brother and as part of the directions I issued the
following from a shell:

$ umount /proc/bus/usb
$ mount /proc/bus/usb
$ mknod -m 666 /dev/usbscanner c 180 48

Now I understand "cupsd" to start the CUPS what?? or am I taking the
man page wrong?

> COMPATIBILITY
>        cupsd implements all of the required IPP/1.1 attributes and operations.
>        It also implements several CUPS-specific administration operations.

So my actual question is this, all I did was unmount and remount the
usb device (printer) and restart CUPS and that solved my problem?

Peter



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