Comment 58 for bug 494141

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: [Bug 494141] Re: CUPS starts after SAMBA; printers are not available (convert cups to upstart)

Excerpts from derekshaw's message of Fri Apr 15 14:18:17 UTC 2011:
> re #44,45,46
>
> Apologies in advance if I've mis-understood the interactions here.
>
> Can you please post the preferred workaround?
>
> I have this exact issue in a fully-patched lucid (10.04.2) deployment
> that has already chewed up hours of my time over the past week. It
> started with VMware ws7 not being able to use a 2nd PCI parallel port,
> which, after my dis-belief passed, pushed me to kludge it with samba and
> cups and raw print queues, only to find this bug (after 3 or 4 cold
> starts to confirm yet another WTF?! moment). All I really want is for
> smbd to start after cups, in a way that won't come back and bite me in
> the [ah] when the packages get updated in the future (at a remote client
> site)
>
> I don't plan to test the proposed patch as described in #49, since this
> machine is going into production ASAP (see comments about hours of time
> invested over a week)

Derek, the change in the -proposed package implements the workaround
others are suggesting, though it does it in the package, rather than
rc.local.

If somebody is willing to try out the -proposed package, and let us know
here, we can allow it into -updates so all users will get it. You don't
need to be affected by the bug to try it out, just follow the test case
on a clean lucid VM (you can just configure a printer that doesn't exist)