Comment 205 for bug 554172
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| Mike Bianchi (mbianchi-foveal) wrote Re: [Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot | #205 |
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:38:04AM -0000, Lindsay Barclay wrote:
> ... and for some reason it worked. It has been two days and I have done 10
> cold restarts and cups has loaded each time. I can't explain it, ...
This bug, which at its base is unreliable boots where scripts in
/etc/init/*.conf and /etc/rc2.d do not get executed, has _always_ proven to
be random. We have seen dozens of successful boots in a row, followed by a
failure, and vice versa.
The workarounds _do_not_ promise you will never see a bad boot. I can only
say that, for me, it _appears_ to have fixed the problem.
You can determine if the boot was probably good by running the runlevel
command. If it returns "N 2", the evidence is that you _very_likely_ to have
had a good boot and all the services are started. If it returns "unknown"
the evidence is that many services did not start, CUPS among them.
I added the runlevel command as the last line of my .bashrc profile,
so I saw the state as soon as I opened a terminal.