desktop-packages team mailing list archive

[Launchpad Bug Tracker <1397491@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You have been subscribed to a public bug:

I've observed on several occasions that i've been unable to get the cups
daemon to respond to changes in configuration files and have been unable
to log in as administrator via the web interface when i know that i
should be able to; even though i did "/etc/init.d/cups  restart".
Finally figured it out! I did "/etc/init.d/cups stop" and using ps
noticed 4 or 5 cupsd processes running! After killing all these off
(oddly enough, a new one was spawned in their place), i did
"/etc/init.d/cups start" and all was well!

Based on my web search (which lead me to try this) this problem has been
around for several years... sigh.

Thanks to whoever might bring sanity to this.

# lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:	14.04
# apt-cache policy cups
cups:
  Installed: 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
  Candidate: 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.7.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

** Affects: cups (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

-- 
/etc/init.d/cups restart or stop failure
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397491
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu.