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

[John Talbut <jt@dpets.co.uk>]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:53:56 +0100 Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> 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.
Hello Brian

Sorry, I meant Iceweasel browser.
The LibreOffice print dialogue only listed "generic printer".

I have tried running cupsd as root.  Iceweasel still can't establish a 
connection to the server at localhost:631, but LibreOffice now lists 
several printers however they do not relate to the printer currently 
available on the network where I am.

running netstat -tulpan | grep 631 as root gives me nothing.

Regards

John