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Allie

Member

Registered: 2009-10-25

Posts: 7

installing printer

Hey buddiiiieeesss!

I was able to reinstall CUPS on my computer and now I am having issued getting it to restart. 
I am attempting to install my Samsung 3051ND printer directly to my PC (it was on a network share before)
The message I get when I try to restart CUPS is:

[allie ~]$ /etc/rc.d/cups restart
:: Stopping CUPS Daemon                                                  [FAIL]
:: Starting CUPS Daemon                                                  [FAIL]

What does a girl to next?

davidgurvich

Member

Registered: 2010-02-11

Posts: 118

Re: installing printer

Does the cups log file show any errors?  Also, that prompt looks like you are trying to start cups as a regular user, not root.  All services need to be started by root.

Allie

Member

Registered: 2009-10-25

Posts: 7

Re: installing printer

cups
I am attempting to recover or change my root password and I cannot do so below is the error message:

[allie ~]$ passwd root
passwd: You may not view or modify password information for root.

Any tips??

RaisedFist

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From: Romania

Registered: 2007-01-30

Posts: 556

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Re: installing printer

You can't change root password if you're not logged in as root. As I can see, you're logged in as allie.

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davidm

Member

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 371

Re: installing printer

cups
I am attempting to recover or change my root password and I cannot do so below is the error message:

[allie ~]$ passwd root
passwd: You may not view or modify password information for root.

Any tips??

Hello.

Sounds like you may want to read up a little more on the unix command line to get a better grasp of things.  Here's a site which may help: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/cli.html I recommend reading it so that you better know what you are doing otherwise you might run into problems.

This wiki page has a few ways to help you get your root password again: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Password_recovery

This wiki page for CUPS might be of use once you fix your password issue. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS

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davidgurvich

Member

Registered: 2010-02-11

Posts: 118

Re: installing printer

To change the root passwd either boot up with a livecd and chroot into your installation then use 'passwd' or modify the grub boot entry to boot in single user mode.  I'm not sure if this works on arch but other distributions can be modified by editing the kernel line and adding either the word 'single' or the number 1 and booting.  That should bring you to a root prompt where you can use 'passwd' to change the root password.  You may need to remount the / partition rw.