[cups.general] CUPS Not Starting

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Fri Jul 13 00:55:20 PDT 2007


Hello,

On Jul 12 11:58 John Winward wrote (shortened):
> E ... Unable to bind socket - Address already in use.

Exactly at this time some other process has port 631 in use.

Usually the reason is that the portmapper does not exclude port 631
so that whatever other process which asks portmapper for a free port
may get port 631 at this time by chance.

Solution:
Fix portmapper or the other process if it doesn't use portmapper.

Workaround:
Restart cups as often as needed during boot or after boot
until it works by chance because usually then this other process
has already finished or is no longer using port 631 or whatever else.

To find out the other process, add a "netstat -nap | grep 631"
or whatever you like in the cupsd init script so that you get it
exactly at the time just before the cupsd starts.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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