[ale] Printer problems

[hscast at charter.net (Scott Castaline)]

Have you tried restarting cupsd from a console? (sudo cupsd restart)

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 11:11 -0500, Vikram Nanda wrote:
> While trying to print a document yesterday, I discovered that the
> printer had vanished from the menu.
> 
> Went to system settings..../Printers ... I received an error message
> Unable to retrieve printer list. Error received from the manager:
> Connection to the cups server failed. Check that the cups server is
> correctly installed and running.
> 
> 
> The cups server had actually stopped running.When I try starting
> cupsys from the services menu, a blank window pops up.
> 
> I have Ubuntu edgy running.
> 
> Any idea why this is happening and what could be the solution
> 
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