Bug#792473: cups: After updating to 2.0.3-6 in testing cups interface no longer works

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Wed 15 Jul 2015 at 23:44:48 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:09:47 +0100 John Talbut <jt@dpets.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > After the recent update Firefox can't establish a connection to the 
> > server at localhost:631.  Also, LibreOffice only shows a generic
> > printer but other packages (Firefox, Mousepad) print OK.
> 
> I've seen this myself.  There's a simple workaround;
> 
> As root, run 'cupsd'
> 
> It's as simple as that.  For whatever reason, cups is not being started,
> or falls over, when the system is booted.

Hello John,

How are you going on with this issue? When you say "Firefox" we expect
you mean "any browser". What do you mean by "generic printer"?

What does 'netstat -tulpan | grep 631' give you?

Regards,

Brian.