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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'

If I go to the CUPS administration URL in firefox (127.0.0.1:631) and on the Administration tab, click "Share published printers connected to this system", and click "Change Settings", cupsd restarts in the console, yet it gives this error:

Feb  2 22:58:04 jennaluv cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!

cupsd.conf is there in it's glory though.  cupsd will only start again when I remove cupsd.conf and do a "cp cupsd.conf.default cupsd.conf".  Why doesn't this work?

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'

Hi synthead,

I just tried what you did and got the exact same thing you described.  I checked the cups.conf file, and one of the lines looked garbled.  So I went to the  administration tab in the web interface, I clicked the "View Error Log" button and found this:

W [03/Feb/2008:11:57:09 -0500] Unknown default authorization type ˜Þc on line 11.
E [03/Feb/2008:11:57:09 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to program error.

Bug report time?

Last edited by peart (2008-02-03 17:12:16)

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'

Sounds like it.  I'll whip my bug reporting guns out.

dakka dakka.

Last edited by synthead (2008-02-03 20:55:39)

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'

Sounds like it.  I'll whip my bug reporting guns out.

dakka dakka.

Bug report filed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9459