[arch-general] cups not starting on boot after last 2 kernel updates? -- where to put it in the DAEMONS line?

Karol Blazewicz karol.blazewicz at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 11:44:10 EDT 2011


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:
>
> It would appear that on Aug 8, Peter Bui did say:
>
>> You have @cups in DAEMONS ... probably need @cupsd?
>
> It would appear that on Aug 8, J. W. Birdsong did say:
>
>> You need to start  cupsd in rc.conf daemons... not cups
>
> It would appear that on Aug 8, David C. Rankin did say:
>
>> Peter, J.W. -- thank you. (slaps self for stupidity) That is a
>> 'forest-for-the-trees' issue it would have taken days to see!
>
> Hmmmnnn. Now I'm confused... According to my console login prompt, I'm
> currently using 2.6.39-ARCH And after a recent pacman -Syu cups stopped
> loading for me until I changed my Daemons line to say cups rather than cupsd.
>
> There had, if I remember right, been a {is it 'rc.confpacnew' or
> 'rc.conf.pacnew'?} that didn't have cups listed in the daemons line.
> Anyway I remember putting "cupsd" the new rc.conf first, and when that didn't
> work I edited it to just say "cups". I didn't think much about it at the time.
> All I cared was that my printer worked again.
>
> But why would one Arch Linux installation need "cups" in the daemons line
> while another needs "cupsd"???
>
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Which version of cups needs 'cups' in the DAEMONS array?


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