[Printing-user-general] Printing stopped working on Debian testing

[email protected] (Joshua McGee) Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:02:31 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.printing.general
Organization http://www.linuxprinting.org/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Printing stopped working in Debian testing overnight.  I tried re-installing
cupsys, and I get the error "cupsd: Child exited with status 1!?".  The FAQ
offers "If running CUPS from the command line, cupsd must be started as root." 
I _am_ running as root.

Full message when running apt-get:

//////////////////////////////////////////
Setting up cupsys (1.2.1-2) ...
Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 1!
invoke-rc.d: initscript cupsys, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing cupsys (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of printconf:
 printconf depends on cupsys; however:
  Package cupsys is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing printconf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cupsys
 printconf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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The end of my cups error log:

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I [29/Jun/2006:23:00:08 -0700] Listening to :::631 (IPv6)
I [29/Jun/2006:23:00:08 -0700] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 (IPv4)
E [29/Jun/2006:23:00:08 -0700] Hostname lookup for "x.y.z.255" failed!
E [29/Jun/2006:23:00:08 -0700] Bad BrowseAddress x.y.z.255 at line 531.
E [29/Jun/2006:23:00:08 -0700] Bad netmask value 192.168.123.* on line 772.
E [29/Jun/2006:23:00:08 -0700] Unknown Location directive Allow on line 772.
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The lines in my cupsd.conf look right to my untrained eye.

Any ideas?

- Joshua McGee