Okay, I'm still dealing with this issue where the CUPS service hangs my machine on startup. I finally got around to doing some digging and here's what I got from /var/log/cups/error_log: W [20/Feb/2005:12:49:20 -0500] LoadDevices: Backend did not respond within 30 seconds! This shows up every time I've tried to re-install the RPMS and when I've compiled from source. Does this ring a bell with anyone as to why CUPS is killing this system? -------------------------------------- Mark Haney markh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Kernel: 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 GNU/Linux 09:42:01 up 17:24, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.18, 0.35