CUPS Does Not Start at Boot

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#1

I have a printer over a wireless connection (a HP Photosmart Insert-fancy-descriptors-here 7520). However, after configuring the printer, I realized that CUPS isn’t actually running. In order to access the printer, I have to manually start the service with “rccups start” in root, every time I boot.

I have the service enabled under systemctl, and I’ve tried out a solution from this older thread, but that’s gotten me nowhere. I’m currently on Tumbleweed. Is there any log file I should be looking at?

Thanks in advance.

#2

On 03/03/2014 07:46 PM, TheCube42 pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> I have a printer over a wireless connection (a HP Photosmart
> Insert-fancy-descriptors-here 7520). However, after configuring the
> printer, I realized that CUPS isn’t actually running. In order to access
> the printer, I have to manually start the service with “rccups start” in
> root, every time I boot.
>
> I have the service enabled under systemctl, and I’ve tried out a
> solution from ‘this older thread’ (http://tinyurl.com/odmvtcp), but
> that’s gotten me nowhere. I’m currently on Tumbleweed. Is there any log
> file I should be looking at?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

Do you have the following file with the indicated content?



/etc/systemd/system/cups.socket
**********************************

[Unit]
Description=CUPS Printing Service Sockets

[Socket]
ListenStream=/var/run/cups/cups.sock
ListenStream=631
ListenDatagram=0.0.0.0:631
BindIPv6Only=ipv6-only

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

If not create it and make sure the perms and owner are set.



chown root.root /etc/systemd/system/cups.socket
chmod 0644 /etc/systemd/system/cups.socket

Then run:


systemctrl enable cups.socket

and

systemctrl start cups.socket

Ken