[SOLVED] Cups could not be contacted after Upgrade to 8.10.

[cariboo]

Can any of you that are having this problem access the cups web page on your computer? To do this in the address bar of your favorite web browser type:

http://localhost:631

If you can't, it means that cups is not running, to start cups, in a terminal type:

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

The above poster that used dpkg in the command, I don't know where you came up with that command, but it shouldn't work as there is no cups.dpkg-new in that particular directory. When I try to run the command, this is what I get:

sudo /etc/init.d/cups.dpkg-new restart
[sudo] password for jim: 
sudo: /etc/init.d/cups.dpkg-new: command not found

Jim

[rickdog]

well, interestingly enough, this is what i have to go through:

(this is of course after localhost:631 is not found upon a fresh reboot)

rick@laptop1:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
[sudo] password for rick:
sudo: /etc/init.d/cups: command not found
rick@laptop1:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups.dpkg-new restart
 * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
[ OK ]
rick@laptop1:~$

pretty strange huh? maybe when i upgraded, the cups package was never properly installed?

anyone?

[d4nnyt]

I ran into that same thing "command not found".

I solved it by opening the folder /etc/init.d/ in thunar and deleting the broken 'cups' link. (I found that the icon which said 'cups' had an x next to it, this is what I deleted).

I then reinstalled cups and cups worked properly, however I still cannot get my printer to work.

Hope this helps.