I broke my cups trying to install a printer repeatedly. It gives the
"cupsd: Child exited with status 98!"
error message, with error log showing
"Full reload complete.
StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Address already in use."

Googling shows that common causes of this are another process using port 631 or a /etc/cupsd.conf configured to listen to the same port twice, but neither of these seem to fit for me. I have done this before using Libranet (Debian based) and never got CUPS to work even after uninstalling and re-installing it. So I don't think it is because of the SuSE way. Maybe the child process is being launched twice?

The question (for someone who understands Windows better)
??Are all child processes "uninstalled" when the parent package is uninstalled and are there other configuration files that need to be deleted to make this work??

naps

Depends if the script that removed the files actually took the time to shut down the service.

However, that would be cleared upon reboot.

netstat -atn |grep 631

This will tell you if there is an application using that port.

Yup, removing cups, cups-client and cups-drivers-stp, re-booting and re-installing them has given me a clean new CUPS for me to re-install the printers (Yea SuSE!). Maybe SuSE cleans up better than my other distro or maybe it was one of the other probs back then.

No, it looks like there is nothing using the port. What does the t do? It certainly makes the output more readable. Does it mean terse or something?

Thanks cylix
naps
PS this is SuSE 9.1