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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 794

Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

Cups doesn't seem to want to work since I transitioned my machine to systemd - although that may be a red herring.

I can start it via

systemctl start cups

and the web interface is available, although there are errors.  For example, the admin tab simply displays

Internal server error

and the printer tab shows:

Unable to get printer list:
Connection refused 

When I look in the log I can see

[CGI] Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

If I enable the daemon with

systemctl enable cups.service

then it returns without errors - although I'm still getting the problems mentioned above - if that makes sense?

If I try and enable it with

systemctl enable cupsd.service

then it returns

Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory

The printer is connected and switched on!

Any ideas?

phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 794

Re: Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

I've tried reinstalling cups and googling there error, but still no luck.

phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 794

Re: Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

BTW - if it makes any difference, the printer is connected by wifi and has worked perfectly well for a while now.

phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 794

Re: Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

Nevermind - rebooting the server fixed it!

Deusdies

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Registered: 2010-09-13

Posts: 116

Re: Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

I have the same problem, but after restarting cups for several times, the problem still didn't go away. Printing worked fine yesterday, today suddenly it won't.

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Painless

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Registered: 2006-02-06

Posts: 235

Re: Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

The BrowseOrder directive (used in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf) stopped working for me after the last update I ran.  Removing it allowed cups to start properly.

What is the output from running:

systemctl status cupsd

That should identify any problems.

medivhok

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Registered: 2013-02-18

Posts: 7

Re: Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

I'm having the same problem. I just installed cups (never used my printer with my arch box yet) but I can't connect to the cups server.

[root@Mercure ~]# systemctl status cupsd
cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
          Active: active (running) since jeu 2013-03-07 07:55:49 UTC; 1s ago
        Main PID: 5136 (cupsd)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/cups.service
                  └─5136 /usr/sbin/cupsd -f

mar 07 07:55:53 Mercure systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure cupsd[5141]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure cupsd[5141]: cupsd: client.c:757: avahi_client_get_host_name: Assertion `client' failed.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure cupsd[5145]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure cupsd[5145]: cupsd: client.c:757: avahi_client_get_host_name: Assertion `client' failed.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd-coredump[5147]: Process 5145 (cupsd) dumped core.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: cups.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: Unit cups.service entered failed state
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd-coredump[5151]: Process 5149 (cupsd) dumped core.
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: cups.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: Unit cups.service entered failed state
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
mar 07 07:55:56 Mercure systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure cupsd[5149]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure cupsd[5149]: cupsd: client.c:757: avahi_client_get_host_name: Assertion `client' failed.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure cupsd[5153]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure cupsd[5153]: cupsd: client.c:757: avahi_client_get_host_name: Assertion `client' failed.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd-coredump[5156]: Process 5153 (cupsd) dumped core.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: cups.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: Unit cups.service entered failed state
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd-coredump[5160]: Process 5158 (cupsd) dumped core.
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: cups.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: Unit cups.service entered failed state
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
mar 07 07:56:00 Mercure systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
mar 07 07:56:04 Mercure cupsd[5158]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
mar 07 07:56:04 Mercure cupsd[5158]: cupsd: client.c:757: avahi_client_get_host_name: Assertion `client' failed.
mar 07 07:56:04 Mercure cupsd[5162]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
mar 07 07:56:04 Mercure cupsd[5162]: cupsd: client.c:757: avahi_client_get_host_name: Assertion `client' failed.
[root@Mercure ~]# 

medivhok

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Registered: 2013-02-18

Posts: 7

Re: Cups error: Unable to connect to cupsd: Connection refused

Ok found this : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1141526