[cups.bugs] No start of cups by startup of the system (ubuntu 9.10)

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Feb 5 08:35:57 PST 2010


On Feb 5, 2010, at 1:46 AM, Gerard wrote:
> Hallo all of you,
> 
> Since a week or so CUPS is not starting at Startup. It is possible to do this from the Terminal. The Problem appeared from alone since an update last week.
> In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf are two lines who starts with 'Listen'. The latter of them points to "/var/run/cups/cups.sock" but there is no 'cups.sock' in "/var/run/cups/". Can this be part of the problem?

No, cupsd will create the socket file on startup.

Look for errors in /var/log/cups/error_log or /var/log/messages after the system boots - more than likely there is another process using port 631.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer







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