[Zettt]

Hi


A few weeks ago i bought a new harddisk. Then i used CCC to clone my harddisk to the new one.

After that i couldn't print anymore. I was looking on another forum for help someone told me that it maybe could have something to do with CUPS. He was right --- i think. When i try to start cupsd via terminal i got the Error that the child exited with status 2.
However i used Printer Setup Repair and found that some directories on my harddisk were missing essential files (don't ask i can't remember...)
But after that i get an error 13 now. Seems like i am on the right way because when asking a friend to start their cupsd they get the same error message.

The problem is i can't get my printer working - even with status 13.
Reinstalling the drivers takes almost 10 minutes(!!)


Does somebody here know how to get this thing working?


I am on a MacBook Pro with 10.4.10 installed. The printer, i think isn't relevant because it doesn't matter which printer i try to print to, is a Canon MP510.


Thanks in advance
Zettt

[besson3c]

is cupsd running for you?

ps aux | grep cupsd

If so, this may account for the errors you are getting starting it up. If not, check out your /var/log/cups/error_log and post the error messages here...

[Zettt]

Hi

cupsd doesn't need to be run all the time. When you have a look into your /private/etc/hostconfig file you see an entry something like cupsd -=AUTOMATIC=-

Anyway...when i look inside the error_log i just see that the last successful start of cupsd was at 16. July 2007.


I was hoping that the new cups 1.3 will get rid of the problem. I have installed it and built and everything. It seems to (surprisingly) do it's job. But now i get an error:

cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!

When i check the persmissions for cupsd.conf it says root:lp i know that it was root:wheel. Unfortunately i can't use PSR to see what this tool can fix, because demo persiod is over. argh...

BTW: Thanks for your help. I am very happy about that.

[Big Mac]

Did you try fixing permissions? (One of the few times that suggestion may actually work. . . .)

[Zettt]

Yes i did...yes i did

I read that Disk Utility recreates some symbolic links in the needed directories of CUPS. No change...sorry.

[besson3c]

Code:
$ ls -l /private/etc/cups/
total 232
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp      1774 Mar 20  2005 apple.convs
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp      3036 Mar 20  2005 apple.types
drwx--x--x   3 root  lp       102 Aug 20 01:04 certs
-rw-------   1 root  lp      2430 Mar 20  2005 classes.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp      2344 Mar 20  2005 client.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1225 Mar 20  2005 command.types
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp     23546 Aug 22  2005 cupsd.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp     23546 Nov  4  2005 cupsd.conf.OLD
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp     23546 Aug 22  2005 cupsd.conf.default
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  lp        68 Mar 27  2005 interfaces
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp      4585 Mar 20  2005 mime.convs
-rw-r--r--   1 root  lp      5923 Mar 20  2005 mime.types
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  lp        68 Jul  2 00:40 ppd
-rw-------   1 root  lp        93 Jul  2 00:40 printers.conf
-rw-------   1 root  lp       320 Apr 21 21:22 printers.conf.O

[Zettt]

I got the same!

Why can't cupsd read the cupsd.conf file then? Any suggestions?

[besson3c]

Can you show us the contents of your cupsd.conf?

[Zettt]

Sure i can. But it's a little longer that you might think

Code:
#
# "$Id: cupsd.conf.in 6720 2007-07-25 00:40:03Z mike $"
#
#   Sample configuration file for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
#   scheduler.  See "man cupsd.conf" for a complete description of this
#   file.
#

# Log general information in error_log - change "info" to "debug" for
# troubleshooting...
LogLevel info

# Administrator user group...
SystemGroup admin
SystemGroupAuthKey system.preferences

# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /private/var/run/cupsd

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all

# Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
DefaultAuthType Basic

# Restrict access to the server...
<Location />
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
</Location>

# Restrict access to the admin pages...
<Location /admin>

  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
</Location>

# Restrict access to configuration files...
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
</Location>

# Set the default printer/job policies...
<Policy default>
  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an administrator...
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # All administration operations require an administrator to authenticate...
  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # All printer operations require a printer operator to authenticate...
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @AUTHKEY(system.print.admin) @admin @lpadmin
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @AUTHKEY(system.print.admin) @admin @lpadmin
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>

#
# End of "$Id: cupsd.conf.in 6720 2007-07-25 00:40:03Z mike $".
#

[besson3c]

My cups configuration file is totally different, but I'm also running with cups constantly active (still rather weird that our configuration files are world's apart).

What do you get when you type in:

cupsd -f

[Zettt]

Thanks for your constant help.

I've changed in the hostconfig file in /private/etc/ the line for CUPS to -YES- instead of -AUTOMATIC-

Still no luck. cupsd says it can't read cupsd.conf

[seanc]

I have a feeling that when you installed CUPS 1.3, it wrote a completely new type of .conf file and for some reason, either CUPS 1.3 or the old version can't understand it.

I'm sure this could be fixed by doing an Archive and Install.

[besson3c]

It is also possible that the CUPS 1.3 binaries did not replace the ones Apple provided, and that you are trying to start up the Apple version of CUPS with the CUPS 1.3 config file.

Do you know what path CUPS 1.3 was installed into? Type in:

which cupsd

Chances are, the source install did not install in the same path. You can test this theory by typing in:

find /usr -name "cupsd"

If this turns up multiple results, one of us can send you a stock Apple cupsd.conf, which should get you back up and running again if the cups in your path is in /usr/sbin/cupsd (Apple's install path) and was unaltered.

Do a:

ls -l /usr/sbin/cupsd

to see when this file was written. Does this coincide with the date you installed CUPS 1.3?

[besson3c]

From the CUPS VersionTracker page (CUPS 1.3.0 - Mac OS X - VersionTracker)

We are no longer providing binaries for Mac OS X since CUPS 1.3.x is not fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.x.You can compile and install CUPS 1.3.x from source, however most of the GUI administration tools provided in Mac OS X will no longer work."

[Zettt]

Ahhh! Sh...

I didn't see that. So when i do a downgrade everything should be fine or not?


cupsd is installed in /usr/sbin/

EDIT:
When call cupsd from the terminal, it doesn't matter if i do sudo or not, i get the following

[chabig]

I installed CUPS 1.3 and have since downgraded back to Apple's latest release. My printing is now fine with the exception that CUPS will not start at login. I have to manually start the CUPS daemon every time I am forced to reboot. My plan is to live with it until Leopard is released.

[Zettt]

Hi

Really? That would be great...erm...it would be better than now
Could you please tell me how you exactly downgraded? :!