FreeBSD CUPS

[Chris Maness]

Kimmo Mustonen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Did you resolve your CUPS issue somehow? I'm getting lockup when doing 
> something in the CUPS admin and I can see the following entries in the 
> error log:
>
> ---8<---8<---
> E [27/Feb/2006:12:53:28 +0200] LoadAllPrinters: Unable to open 
> /etc/cups/printers.conf - No such file or directory
> E [27/Feb/2006:12:53:28 +0200] LoadAllClasses: Unable to open 
> /etc/cups/classes.conf - No such file or directory
> E [27/Feb/2006:12:53:28 +0200] LoadDevices: Unable to open backend 
> directory "/usr/lib/cups/backend": No such file or directory
> ---8<---8<---
>
> and the Content-Type for http://localhost:631/ is for some reason 
> text/plain:
>
> ---8<---8<---
> GET / HTTP/1.0
>
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:49:56 GMT
> Server: CUPS/1.1
> Content-Language: en
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:37:23 GMT
> Content-Length: 1604
> ---8<---8<---
>
> and http://localhost:631/admin asks for the root password and just 
> freezes after that. :(
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 (amd64).
>
> Regards,
> Kimmo Mustonen
Re-download the ports files (i.e. the tarball cups.tar.gz) and re 
install, that's what fixed it for me.