Comment 7 for bug 933308

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:29:56AM -0000, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Can everyone with this problem edit /etc/init/cups.conf replacing the
> line (near the end)

> timeout=6

> by

> timeout=60

> After that, reboot your machine. Check whether no new "cupsd failed to
> create /var/run/cups/cups.sock, skipping automatic printer
> configuration" message gets added to /var/log/upstart/cups.log and

I'll let someone else do this. I'm more concerned about fixing the
underlying upstart bug, so that the post-start wait loop can go away
entirely. ;)

> whether the boot time (BIOS screen to login screen) does not get
> significantly longer.

It won't. lightdm does not wait for cups.