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Terminal Infinite Loop

When opening Terminal I get this message that repeats over and over making it impossible for me to do anything in Terminal

'Unable to open "/private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf": No such file or directory'

All my searching here turns up a printing issue. I don't have a printer and haven't had one for the better part of a year.

I've checked in Console for the CUPS logs and there is nothing there.

How can I either replace this file [hopefully without a full reinstall of the OS] or make this message go away so that I can actually use Terminal?

Aside, I've not used Terminal in quite awhile so I have no idea when this file disappeared or when the problem would have begun.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 15, 2014 1:21 AM

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comraderoger Author

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Apr 20, 2014 10:56 PM in response to andyBall_uk

No, I do not. I thought I had mentioned that in my initial post. Apparently not...

andyBall_uk

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Apr 21, 2014 7:02 AM in response to comraderoger

Are you able to do this : OS X Mavericks: Reset the printing system

It's possible that you'll find System Preferences stops responding when you select the Printers & Scanners pane... if that happens : OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit

Apr 21, 2014 7:09 AM in response to comraderoger

Have you tired the Teminal from a differnt account, the Guest account will work fine for this.

This will help narrow it down to a problem in your account or to a system wide problem.

comraderoger Author

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Apr 21, 2014 11:40 AM in response to andyBall_uk

Did this and the problem still persists.

But, thanks for the suggestion. It is appreciated.

comraderoger Author

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Apr 21, 2014 11:44 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Guest account, safe mode, you name it. The problem is everywhere, apparently.

I am going to take my laptop in for a full scale check as this is just one of a long list of issues I've been having off and on since December.

Currently, it can take up to two hours, yes, hours, before the machine is fully responsive after a restart. I spend far too much time looking at the spinny beachball of death.

And, before you ask, yes, I have done everything under the sun to get this machine healthy from erasing the HD and doing a clean OS install to various utilites and cache cleanups and on and on and on.

I'm at the end of my abilities and will turn it over to the pros to see if they can diagnose the problems.

But, again, thanks for your assistance, it is appreciated even if it didn't work................

andyBall_uk

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Apr 21, 2014 11:52 AM in response to comraderoger

and is /private/etc/cups/ still showing no cupsd.conf ?

If there are these : cupsd.conf.default cupsd.conf.O

then one can probably be copied to the required file.

The reset printing worked here to replace the missing file, but it's possible that you have additional problems. (edit : >>Currently, it can take up to two hours, yes, hours, before the machine is fully responsive after a restart. >> I see this now ).