Comment 92 for bug 554172

Even though it may be unrelated, I tried commenting out the line 'console output' in /etc/init/rc.conf. I was able to boot three times without issue, but then on the fourth boot cups didn't start again.

Ran 'start rc-sysinit' at command line to get cups to start. I noticed several other processes start when I do this. Here's a snippet of ps aux of the processes that started with 'start rc-sysinit' when I ran at 09:48:

root 1311 0.0 0.0 1788 564 tty4 Ss+ 09:48 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4
root 1316 0.0 0.0 1788 564 tty5 Ss+ 09:48 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5
root 1323 0.0 0.0 1788 560 tty2 Ss+ 09:48 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2
root 1327 0.0 0.0 1788 564 tty3 Ss+ 09:48 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3
root 1329 0.0 0.0 1788 564 tty6 Ss+ 09:48 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6
root 1330 0.0 0.0 2820 528 ? Ss 09:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/irqbalance
root 1331 0.0 0.0 2044 864 ? Ss 09:48 0:00 acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
root 1337 0.0 0.0 2372 876 ? Ss 09:48 0:00 cron
daemon 1338 0.0 0.0 2244 428 ? Ss 09:48 0:00 atd
root 1371 0.0 0.0 11732 1360 ? Ss 09:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd
root 1374 0.0 0.0 11732 1168 ? S 09:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd
root 1385 2.0 0.1 6828 2456 ? Ss 09:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
root 1456 0.0 0.0 1828 560 ? S 09:48 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/ondemand background
root 1463 0.0 0.0 1768 436 ? S 09:48 0:00 sleep 60
root 1465 0.0 0.0 1788 568 tty1 Ss+ 09:48 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1

So it appears that tty's, irqbalance, acpid, cron, atd, winbindd (wine dependency I believe), cupsd are all affected.