CUPS disappears

**mike67114** · November 30th, 2009

Further information:

I am running CUPS 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1 .

Browsing through my startup logs I found that the cups server was not found, but the printer was recognized by the USB system.

I installed the (not previously installed) HPLIP packages (HPLIP, HPLIP-GUI, HPLIP-docs, etc.) using synaptic. http://localhost:631 then became available, and the printer was recognized.

After a system reboot the CUPS server again is not found, and, again, no printing and no access to http://localhost:631 .

Trying "system >> preferences >> default printer" raises a dialog box with the error message "CUPS schedler is not running".
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Am I mis-interpreting this? Is the true problem that CUPS server is quitting and not restarting?

My 9.04 printed reliably and this old LaserJet 5p has always been super reliable.

**mike67114** · December 4th, 2009

After more (all night) poking around I have determined that CUPS is not "disappearing" but is not restarting after rebooting. I can restart Cups with the terminal command
"sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart". I will add that line as a startup script.

I feel there should be a real solution for this problem not just a work-around.

Thanks for the help.

**John1232** · December 4th, 2009

I too had problems with my HP printer when upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. I was going to add a startup script but choose another way; install sys-rc-conf and configure CUPS from there:

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

Then run:

sudo sysv-rc-conf

There will be a list of services running with a "X" if it runs a a particular time during startup. Scroll down until you find "cups". Mine was checked under columns 2,3,4,& 5. Now go under the "S" column (Startup Column) and hit your space bar to put a X there. Now hit "q" on your keyboard to exit sysv-rc-conf. Restart your system. This worked perfect on my system. Hope it helps you guys.

**mike67114** · December 7th, 2009

That does seem to work. Thank you very much!

**pranayama** · December 19th, 2009

I have had exactly the same problem with cups, and also boinc and virtualbox daemons not starting on boot.

sysv-rc-conf has fixed it for now.

Has anybody submitted a bug report about this yet? I can't find one on Launchpad.

**PC_load_letter** · December 23rd, 2009

I have the same problem now on my Karmic box (clean install 64-bit). This was not a problem before, only recently, so it might be related to a recent update.
I totally agree with the OP that this is outrageous. There should be a proper fix.

EDIT:
I don't know why the OP marked this one as solved, and in my case I can not seem to be able to start CUPS manually!!!!? I get the following

Code:

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups force-reload
 * Reloading Common Unix Printing System: cupsd                          [fail]

Any idea how to fix this? I have a Samsung printer that used to work perfectly on the same computer since Feisty.

**ipguru99** · December 30th, 2009

Ugh.. HAS to be something fairly recent.. I spent 2 days trying to figure out why my OO Writer wouldn't open Templates anymore.. or they took 2 minutes, anyway... Yeah, it was CUPS! I got all the way done with tcpdump'ing (because I thought it was a network issue.. Templates opened just fine with NO network connection up). The only other service was CUPS... but I didn't notice it before, because it was not running (I can't believe I haven't printed anything since before 12-18-09).. neither is ssh.. what the hell happened with UPSTART?

I changed the

Code:

Listen localhost:631

to

Code:

Listen *:631

in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file and was able to start cups. I still see the errors about the .hplip directory being in the /var/spool/cups/tmp folder.. but I can actually go into my System,Administration,Printers again!... Oh.. and my freakin' OO Templates open in 5 seconds again!