[cups.general] cups hanging when initializing backend

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Oct 27 05:44 Hatto von Hatzfeld wrote (shortened):
> My cups server quite often (not always) fails to initialize the printer
> connected to /dev/lp0 ("Backend did not respond within 30 seconds!").
....
> DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
....
> OS: SuSE 9.2

Make sure that the parallel port stuff is ready to operate
(in particular that the the kernel modules are loaded)
before CUPS starts.

See
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Dec/2640.html

Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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