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?
It rings a bell, but I'm not sure my problem was the same. I was getting a similar error because my Samsung laser printer (ML-1710) installed it's own version of linuxprint in /usr/local. I know these two links were part of the solution, but I don't know if they were the entire solution:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 564840 Dec 1 22:52 llpr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 2 21:46 llpr.cups -> llpr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 1 22:52 lpr -> llpr
In 15 minutes of looking, I could not find where in the printconf system these links were referenced. I think I added my solution to a bugzilla report, but Bugzilla has such a byzantine search procedure, I can never find the same report twice.
Anyway, I hope this suggests some approach to fixing your problem.
Andrew Robinson
