The way I fixed this is I ran the demon directly one time and it start fine now. Why this is I dont know just run /usr/sbin/cupsd as root once and "service cups start" and "service cups stop" started working. Jason R. Moore -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=209366&topic_id=41682&forum=10#forumpost209366 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame bigj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx