On 08/08/11 at 11:31am, David C. Rankin wrote:

Guys,

Cups has been working like clockwork for the past year - up until the last 2 kernel updates. Now after boot, a manual '/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart' is required to get it working again. Would moving it in the DAEMONS line make sense? Currently I have:

DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network named @netfs @ntpd @sshd @dhcp4 @crond @mysqld @postfix @dovecot @httpd @samba @cups @vsftpd @sensors @spamd)

When cups fails to start, I get the following warnings and errors:

W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "[v1.::1]" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "127.0.0.1" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "[v1.::1]" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "127.0.0.1" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "192.168.7.15" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "192.168.7.15" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "192.168.7.15" ignored! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3225! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3235! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3245! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3255! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3265! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3275! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3285! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3295! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3305! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3315! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3325! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to bind socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address already in use. E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to bind socket for address 127.0.0.1:631 - Address already in use. E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to bind socket for address 192.168.7.15:631 - Address already in use. E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported

I have no idea what the Bad File number errors are, but the warnings are just from the multiple explicit listen designations in the cupsd.conf for client access:

# Only listen for connections from the local machine. Listen localhost:631 Listen phoenix.rlfpllc.com:631 Listen phoenix:631 Listen www.rlfpllc.com:631 Listen 192.168.7.15:631

I think the real issue is the 'Address already in use' errors, but that doesn't explain why it cups starts just fine with a manual '/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart'. If the address/port was actually already taken, then I would expect the restart to fail as well. The the ACL error is fine - cups isn't using acls on my box and I don't want to set the acl mount option in fstab, so I can live with that error.

I've been through the forums, google and bug tracker task/22895, but still no solution. Should I move cupsd earlier in the DAEMONS line? Anybody else seeing cups fail to start on boot, but starting fine on a manual restart? Thanks for any thoughts or help you can give.

-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

You need to start cupsd in rc.conf daemons... not cups