-------- Original Message -------- From: Joe Morris (NTM) <Joe_Morris@ntm.org> Date: Wed 15 Aug 2007 10:13:44 AM EST

On 08/15/2007 07:27 AM, Dave Barton wrote:

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Hmm... looks like serious corruption somewhere. As root and user, I have tried every possible variation of lppasswd and all I get is: "lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied" Consequently http://localhost:631 returns a 404 error.

Check the permissions on /etc/cups/passwd.md5.

File doesn't exist. Tried copying it over from backup I made prior to uninstall and reinstall, set permissions to root -rw-r---- but still no joy.

Is this an upgrade?

No, reformat and reinstall. Have reinstated a few personal preferences to /home from backup.

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In the past I have never had to mess with cups. I have just set it up and it works. Now this and numerous other issues I have had getting 10.2 working properly, is frustrating the hell out out of me.

Can anyone offer any suggestions how to resolve this?

There are some pretty big differences between the 10.2 cups (1.2.7) and previous versions. Search the SDB for more info. OR, uninstall cups, wipe out the /etc/cups directory, then reinstall fresh. I suspect it will work then. BTW, at least one other file in that directory is owned by ghostscript, so be careful.

As mentioned in my original post "I have tried uninstalling cups, deleting previous cups configurations and reinstalling to no avail." (twice in fact). I had previously searched the SDB, but found nothing there which helped resolve this issue. Thanks for trying to help Joe, but it looks like I am am going to have to do things the Windows way and scrape the hdd to start all over again. %&*!(# it !!! Dave