Hi,

I did a clean install on a new computer about 3 weeks ago. It had never had an issue of the printers not being loaded. I booted this morning, and about 15 minutes ago went to print for the first time today, and no printers. Doing the 'sudo start rc-sysinit' and the 'ps aux' commands per response 104 here yielded the following information:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0   2796  1632 ?        Ss   09:31   0:00 /sbin/init
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kthreadd]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [migration/0]
root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [watchdog/0]
root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [migration/1]
root         7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [watchdog/1]
root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [migration/2]
root        10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ksoftirqd/2]
root        11  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [watchdog/2]
root        12  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [migration/3]
root        13  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ksoftirqd/3]
root        14  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [watchdog/3]
root        15  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [events/0]
root        16  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [events/1]
root        17  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [events/2]
root        18  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [events/3]
root        19  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [cpuset]
root        20  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [khelper]
root        21  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [netns]
root        22  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [async/mgr]
root        23  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [pm]
root        25  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [sync_supers]
root        26  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [bdi-default]
root        27  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kintegrityd/0]
root        28  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kintegrityd/1]
root        29  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kintegrityd/2]
root        30  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kintegrityd/3]
root        31  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kblockd/0]
root        32  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kblockd/1]
root        33  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kblockd/2]
root        34  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kblockd/3]
root        35  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kacpid]
root        36  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root        37  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kacpi_hotplug]
root        38  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ata/0]
root        39  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ata/1]
root        40  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ata/2]
root        41  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ata/3]
root        42  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ata_aux]
root        43  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root        44  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [khubd]
root        45  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kseriod]
root        46  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kmmcd]
root        51  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [khungtaskd]
root        52  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kswapd0]
root        53  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        SN   09:31   0:00 [ksmd]
root        54  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [aio/0]
root        55  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [aio/1]
root        56  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [aio/2]
root        57  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [aio/3]
root        58  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ecryptfs-kthr]
root        59  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [crypto/0]
root        60  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [crypto/1]
root        61  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [crypto/2]
root        62  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [crypto/3]
root        66  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kstriped]
root        67  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kmpathd/0]
root        68  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kmpathd/1]
root        69  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kmpathd/2]
root        70  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kmpathd/3]
root        71  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kmpath_handle]
root        72  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ksnapd]
root        73  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kondemand/0]
root        74  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kondemand/1]
root        75  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kondemand/2]
root        76  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kondemand/3]
root        77  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kconservative]
root        78  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kconservative]
root        79  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kconservative]
root        80  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kconservative]
root       232  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root       259  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:01 [scsi_eh_1]
root       264  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root       278  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:01 [scsi_eh_3]
root       283  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [scsi_eh_4]
root       284  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [khpsbpkt]
root       285  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [scsi_eh_5]
root       290  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [knodemgrd_0]
root       294  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [scsi_eh_6]
root       295  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:03 [usb-storage]
root       305  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [usbhid_resume]
root       329  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [jbd2/sda5-8]
root       330  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ext4-dio-unwr]
root       331  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ext4-dio-unwr]
root       332  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ext4-dio-unwr]
root       333  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [ext4-dio-unwr]
root       366  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [flush-8:0]
root       397  0.0  0.0   2312   880 ?        S    09:31   0:00 upstart-udev-br
root       400  0.0  0.0   2780  1136 ?        S<s  09:31   0:00 udevd --daemon
root       757  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [kpsmoused]
root       832  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [hd-audio0]
root       839  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [hd-audio1]
syslog     846  0.0  0.0  34532  1488 ?        Sl   09:31   0:00 rsyslogd -c4
102        851  0.0  0.0   3344  1640 ?        Ss   09:31   0:02 dbus-daemon --s
root       856  0.0  0.0  18776  3240 ?        Ssl  09:31   0:00 gdm-binary
root       859  0.0  0.0  19000  4020 ?        Ssl  09:31   0:02 NetworkManager
root       863  0.0  0.0   4164  2280 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/sbin/modem
root       868  0.0  0.0   2228   956 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /sbin/dhclient
avahi      871  0.0  0.0   2924  1524 ?        S    09:31   0:00 avahi-daemon: r
avahi      872  0.0  0.0   2924   544 ?        Ss   09:31   0:00 avahi-daemon: c
root       873  0.0  0.0   4824  2284 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /sbin/wpa_suppl
root       876  0.5  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   1:36 [phy0]
root       892  0.0  0.0  20572  3132 ?        Sl   09:31   0:00 /usr/sbin/conso
root       957  0.0  0.0  20496  3756 ?        Sl   09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gdm/gd
root      1001  5.9  1.8 151772 155096 tty7    Ss+  09:31  18:29 /usr/bin/X :0 -
root      1004  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:31   0:00 [firegl]
gdm       1023  0.0  0.0   3380   752 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-l
root      1038  0.0  0.0  18968  3156 ?        Sl   09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gdm/gd
root      1042  0.0  0.0   5520  2792 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/upower
rtkit     1046  0.0  0.0  22904  1188 ?        SNl  09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/rtkit/
root      1050  0.0  0.0   6448  3952 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/policy
108       1096  0.0  0.0  16952  4548 ?        Ssl  09:31   0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root      1097  0.0  0.0   3528  1296 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-runner
root      1120  0.0  0.0   3604  1224 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-inpu
root      1121  0.0  0.0   3604  1196 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
root      1122  0.0  0.0   3604  1204 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
root      1142  0.0  0.0   3608  1212 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-stor
root      1143  0.0  0.0   3608  1216 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-stor
root      1144  0.0  0.0   3608  1208 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-stor
root      1145  0.0  0.0   3608  1216 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-stor
root      1146  0.0  0.0   3608  1216 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-stor
root      1147  0.0  0.0   3608  1216 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-stor
root      1148  0.0  0.0   3616  1200 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
108       1149  0.0  0.0   3416  1152 ?        S    09:31   0:00 hald-addon-acpi
don       1196  0.0  0.0  23980  2444 ?        Sl   09:31   0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-
don       1214  0.0  0.0  25876  6696 ?        Ssl  09:31   0:00 gnome-session
don       1250  0.0  0.0   3280   360 ?        Ss   09:31   0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-ag
don       1253  0.0  0.0   3380   740 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-l
don       1254  0.0  0.0   3300  1440 ?        Ss   09:31   0:00 /bin/dbus-daemo
don       1257  0.0  0.0   7612  4324 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/libgco
don       1264  0.0  0.1  89936 10224 ?        Ss   09:31   0:01 /usr/lib/gnome-
don       1266  0.0  0.0   6508  2316 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
don       1271  0.0  0.0  30276  2612 ?        Ssl  09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//
don       1277  0.4  0.0 103648  4884 ?        S<sl 09:31   1:14 /usr/bin/pulsea
don       1279  0.0  0.0  18400  6064 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/policy
don       1280  0.0  0.1  61232 11564 ?        S    09:31   0:00 nm-applet --sm-
don       1281  0.0  0.0  19380  7616 ?        S    09:31   0:00 bluetooth-apple
don       1282  0.2  0.2  29904 20916 ?        S    09:31   0:49 /usr/bin/compiz
don       1288  0.0  0.8 141448 72632 ?        S    09:31   0:14 nautilus
don       1292  0.0  0.2  50000 18388 ?        S    09:31   0:04 gnome-panel
don       1293  0.0  0.0  20044  7764 ?        S    09:31   0:00 gnome-power-man
don       1305  0.0  0.0   6800  2992 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
don       1307  0.0  0.0  41940  3508 ?        Ssl  09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/bonobo
don       1314  0.0  0.1  45832 13448 ?        S    09:31   0:09 /usr/lib/gnome-
don       1316  0.0  0.1  44708 12348 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-
don       1318  0.0  0.0  33348  3672 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
root      1320  0.0  0.0  15972  3368 ?        Sl   09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/udisks
don       1321  0.0  0.0   1828   496 ?        Ss   09:31   0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr
don       1324  0.0  0.1  20048  9356 ?        S    09:31   0:01 /usr/bin/gtk-wi
root      1328  0.0  0.0   5176   964 ?        S    09:31   0:02 udisks-daemon: 
don       1330  0.0  0.0  16948  2328 ?        Sl   09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
don       1333  0.0  0.0   7124  2384 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
don       1338  0.0  0.0  10748  2960 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/pulsea
don       1345  0.0  0.1  64460 14420 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-
don       1346  0.0  0.1  23108  8904 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-
don       1347  0.0  0.1  53320 13044 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/indica
don       1348  0.0  0.1  32208 13524 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-
don       1349  0.0  0.1  54280 13304 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/indica
don       1357  0.0  0.0  17516  4288 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/indica
don       1358  0.0  0.0   6548  2260 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
don       1360  0.0  0.0  85072  4552 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/indica
don       1362  0.0  0.0  24292  4252 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/indica
don       1375  0.0  0.0  17980  4752 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/indica
don       1377  0.0  0.0  18860  4856 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/indica
don       1379  0.0  0.0   6376  2352 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
don       1381  0.0  0.0  17936  5332 ?        Ss   09:31   0:00 gnome-screensav
don       1399  0.0  0.0   1828   536 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bi
don       1412  0.0  0.0   1828   548 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /bin/sh /opt/th
don       1416  0.3  1.2 363640 101760 ?       Sl   09:31   0:57 /opt/thunderbir
don       1432  0.0  0.0  19024  7264 ?        S    09:31   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-
don       1435  0.0  0.1  34596 10956 ?        Sl   09:32   0:00 /usr/lib/evolut
don       1437  0.0  0.1  31472 15116 ?        S    09:32   0:00 python /usr/sha
don       1444  0.0  0.1  41696 11760 ?        S    09:32   0:00 update-notifier
root      1450  0.0  0.0  13668  8012 ?        S    09:32   0:00 /usr/bin/python
don       1552  0.0  0.0   1828   536 ?        S    09:42   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bi
don       1566  0.0  0.0   1828   548 ?        S    09:42   0:00 /bin/sh /opt/fi
don       1570  0.3  1.2 344696 101304 ?       Sl   09:42   1:12 /opt/firefox/fi
root      1645  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:47   0:00 [scsi_eh_7]
root      1646  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:47   0:00 [usb-storage]
root      1653  0.0  0.0   2776  1148 ?        S<   09:47   0:00 udevd --daemon
root      1654  0.0  0.0   2776  1112 ?        S<   09:47   0:00 udevd --daemon
don       1824  0.0  0.0  17788  6380 ?        S    09:52   0:00 /usr/lib/notify
don       2111  0.0  0.2  66868 18856 ?        Sl   10:22   0:02 /opt/firefox/pl
don       2840  0.0  0.0   1828   536 ?        S    14:35   0:00 /bin/sh /opt/op
don       2850  1.5  1.0 205728 83608 ?        Sl   14:35   0:07 /opt/openoffice
don       2909  0.4  0.1  43684 14192 ?        S    14:41   0:00 gnome-control-c
don       2950  0.8  0.1  51424 13324 ?        Sl   14:43   0:00 gnome-terminal
don       2951  0.0  0.0   1984   696 ?        S    14:43   0:00 gnome-pty-helpe
don       2952  0.5  0.0   5808  3156 pts/0    Ss   14:43   0:00 bash
root      3038  0.0  0.0   1788   560 tty4     Ss+  14:43   0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root      3042  0.0  0.0   1788   564 tty5     Ss+  14:43   0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root      3048  0.0  0.0   1788   564 tty2     Ss+  14:43   0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root      3050  0.0  0.0   1788   568 tty3     Ss+  14:43   0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root      3052  0.0  0.0   1788   564 tty6     Ss+  14:43   0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root      3056  0.0  0.0   2824   584 ?        Ss   14:43   0:00 /usr/sbin/irqba
root      3057  0.0  0.0   2044   872 ?        Ss   14:43   0:00 acpid -c /etc/a
root      3082  0.0  0.0   2372   876 ?        Ss   14:43   0:00 cron
daemon    3083  0.0  0.0   2244   436 ?        Ss   14:43   0:00 atd
root      3089  0.0  0.0  11732  1360 ?        Ss   14:43   0:00 /usr/sbin/winbi
root      3092  0.0  0.0  11732  1172 ?        S    14:43   0:00 /usr/sbin/winbi
root      3122  0.0  0.0   6824  2664 ?        Ss   14:43   0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd
root      3191  0.0  0.0   1828   564 ?        S    14:43   0:00 /bin/sh /etc/in
root      3197  0.0  0.0   1768   440 ?        S    14:43   0:00 sleep 60
root      3200  0.0  0.0   1788   568 tty1     Ss+  14:43   0:00 /sbin/getty -8
don       3207  0.0  0.0   2712  1040 pts/0    R+   14:43   0:00 ps aux

The computer was booted at 9:31 this morning. The  'sudo start rc-sysinit' and the 'ps aux' commands were at 14:43