On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 14:47 -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I reported here some time ago random failures to complete starting of my > Ubuntu 10.04 system. Power off and power on usually results in what looks > like a normal start. Three time now Cups has failed to start on boot. I > have found an interesting discussion of the Cups problem. See > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/554172. Of > particular interest is comment #73 and subsequent. It seems very likely > that both intermittent problems I have observed (and perhaps some I have > not observed!) are of the same origin. > > One question I have is, where to go from here? The cups issue was first > mentioned in April; the last comment was hours ago. It has been marked > "Critical" for one month. Are there other places to look for a fix? May I > assume that the problem is deep down in the system, and an update will be > forthcoming "real soon now"? I note a bunch of workarounds reported, but > not understanding them makes me concerned that they may break something > worse.
Dear Denis, When I've had similar problems, and did not want to get into the internals, my workaround has been to use the /etc/rc.local file. You should be able to include additional commands in that file -- which are run after the services in the default runlevel are started. In this case, that's the services in the /etc/rc.2/ directory. In your case, I'd try including the following command in the noted /etc/rc.local file, before the "exit 0" /etc/init.d/cups start The /etc/rc.local file is sort of like a band-aid; once the bug is fixed, you'll be able to remove the /etc/init.d/cups start command from the noted file. FWIW, CUPS is ok on my My e1405 laptop with 10.04 32-bit. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
