Problem with cups

[april]

I am unable to get cups to load "http://localhost:631/" with this message

Failed to Connect

The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:631.

Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later.
Are you unable to browse other sites? Check the computer's network connection.
Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy? Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.

This request "http://localhost:2605/index.html" loads OSbitmeter fine

So can anyone suggest what might be blocking cups?

[Galbi]

While waiting for a better answer....
I wonder if CUPS is really running.
In a console:

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#ps ax |grep cups

would be my first intent.

Saludos.

[watchdog]

I would try to uninstall the most recent package installed in PPM... Sometimes, for permissions problems, installing a package breaks cups. You can restart cups with:

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/etc/init.d/cups restart

[april]

Thanks watchdog ,running that gave me a missing link to the cups engine . So I'll go trace that now

I'm getting lots of cups related files and directories .
The link is pointing to /lib/init/upstart-job but I find there is no /lib/init/ files whatever .
can anyone suggest a fix . I have reinstalled some of the cups packages just now to try to remedy this but nothing has worked so far

[watchdog]

Cups broken by missing libs and files? I never had success reinstalling cups. I suggest to backup important data and start again with a fresh frugal install.

[april]

While waiting for a better answer.... :)
I wonder if CUPS is really running.
In a console:

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#ps ax |grep cups

would be my first intent.
Saludos.

Yes it was but it would not stop restart from a terminal Thanks

[perdido]

Assuming you are still running precise 5.7.1 , the box-stock cups file in /etc/init.d/ on my precise 5.7.1 is not a sym-link, it is a real executable that is 3942 Bytes dated 19 nov, 2009

Seems yours updated to a sym-link.

Just mentioning because it is different from mine.

[april]

Yes thanks , something weird has gone on . I picked that up myself so I opened the precise5.7.1.sfs file and copied the right file into the above directory . That improved the situation but now I have an unfound literal so i'm presently trying to track that down or get all the cups files in the sfs copied into my directories. I guess it must be some script running in the savefile that changed my files and it probably comes from an update I must have done .

[april]

Icouldn't find a way around that so I looked through and got rid of a latter version of cups I had tried to install when the error surfaced . Then with the copied file in place cups is back to normal I think.