Public bug reported:

I've observed on several occasions that i've been unable to get the cups
daemon to respond to changes in configuration files and have been unable
to log in as administrator via the web interface when i know that i
should be able to; even though i did "/etc/init.d/cups  restart".
Finally figured it out! I did "/etc/init.d/cups stop" and using ps
noticed 4 or 5 cupsd processes running! After killing all these off
(oddly enough, a new one was spawned in their place), i did
"/etc/init.d/cups start" and all was well!

Based on my web search (which lead me to try this) this problem has been
around for several years... sigh.

Thanks to whoever might bring sanity to this.

# lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:        14.04
# apt-cache policy cups
cups:
  Installed: 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
  Candidate: 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 
Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.7.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  /etc/init.d/cups restart or stop failure

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