Comment 52 for bug 1598300

I just ran into this bug today when I went to use the official cups package for the first time. Or at least I'm pretty sure I did. Google landed me here when I went to search for the output of "service cups status", of which my test system's output looks very similar to the output of the person who opened this ticket and the described behavior is identical to what I'm running into.

This bug makes the cups package for Ubuntu useless for initial configuration from the comfort of a standard desktop - a common enough scenario, IMO. I just can't believe it's taken almost 9 months to still not have a fix pushed out everywhere, but there you have it. Directly running the command being run by the system service (/usr/sbin/cupsd -l) has identical behavior - the software self-terminates after a few minutes of inactivity.

I'm testing the -f option and I'm hoping that it will resolve the issue for me.