CUPS web interface timeout

[BlindSpy]

I had cups working well. Then (i couldnt tell you what I did because i dont print that often) cups stopped working. Any requests (print or web interface) just time out and I end up having to kill whatever requested it because it just freezes. I uninstalled cups, foomatic, gimp-print, the hp drivers and ran the cruft script to clean out all files related to cups that hadn't been deleted.

After this I did a clean install and still have the same problem. I've even tried using kcontrol (kprint) to fix it but that even times out when I go to the print screen cause it tries to connect to cups.

When i try restarting cups it kept giving these 'cupsd: Child exited with status 98!' and i think a 63 and a 99 as well.

After zapping it and restarting it a few times - it seems to restart and stop and all that stuff with no problems (untill i reboot my computer - then it does the same stuff again) but it doesnt take any requests of any kind still.

Here's a clean error log of a start up of cups:

http://blindspy.homelinux.org:8080/~blindspy/cups.log
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[laurent dene]

Hi there,

I'm not very good in this (printing) but I saw nobody answered your mail, so I'll give it a trie.
Some time ago I had some related problems (I have a network printer) that gave me some headaches.
I discovered that I changed some settings in the gui-firewall tool of my kde, turning it of can eclipse some problems (at least to check things out if you want to use this kind of security for your network)
It's truth that this does not provide a solution for a local printing problem, I do not think that cups works over ipp in a local situation.
Anyway check if your /etc/host is well configurated. You need at least one line like this :

[BlindSpy]

laurent your a genious! after you said that I remembered I took that line outa my hosts file for testing purposes and never put it back in! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!


Can I make a requests to the mods to get this put into the cups printing guide that this line is needed or cups wont work?
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[nsahoo]

I am having the same issue. And I added localhost.localdomain to the /etc/hosts .. still i am having that time out thing. The funny (read frustrating) part is for the first 5 secs after i restart the cupsd server, it'd respond .. after that "waiting for localhost..." forever .. Also, kprinter hangs when i try to do anything on the printer .. it responds to the mouse clicks 'occasionally' .. I have been breaking my head on it all day ..

[Ateo]

Unmerge cups then remove it's etc directory

[nsahoo]

I tried removing /etc/conf, reinstalling cups. But, still no luck. when i point the browser at localhost:631, first few links come up alright then .. as if the server went down.