Bug#462069: #462069 cupsys: enabling printer sharing breaks the server config file
Seconded (or 3rd'ed or whatever). After tweaking a few things with the CUPS
web server today, my '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' had:
% grep DefaultAuthType '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'
DefaultAuthType �c
...restarting the server failed:
% /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
Message from syslogd@Arf at Sun Feb 17 18:06:30 2008 ...
Arf cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!
cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
Did something in the web based config engine add the garbage?
NB: there's two bugs here.
1) Something adds garbage to 'cupsd.conf'
2) Vague error message. Suggested revision:
Foobar cupsd: Garbage characters on line #11 of '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!
A web search shows many users have been confused by the current
error message; I should open a new bug.
More detail:
% grep DefaultAuthType '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' | hexdump -C
00000000 44 65 66 61 75 6c 74 41 75 74 68 54 79 70 65 20 |DefaultAuthType |
00000010 90 ec 05 08 63 0a |....c.|
00000016
Commenting out the line allows CUPS to restart.
HTH...
(cupsys v 1.3.5-1+b1)
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