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cups package

  1. Bug #1598300
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1598300

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Stephan (meistadieb) wrote : Re: cups hang after a while

The same for me:

● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: ena
   Active: inactive (dead) since Di 2016-08-30 08:42:33 CEST; 34min ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
  Process: 11682 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 11682 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

error_log attached. Nothing special in there. cups is just going inactive and doesn't come back. A 'sudo service cups restart' fixes the problem until the next reboot:

● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: ena
   Active: active (running) since Di 2016-08-30 09:19:19 CEST; 2min 26s ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
 Main PID: 17018 (cupsd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service
           ├─17018 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l
           └─17025 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://