Interesting message...

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:09:40 -0500,
  Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> My lappy finally got around to actually installing the updates to make it a 
> fedora 8 install.
> 
> Imagine my surprise when I saw the message go by that the cups server couldn't 
> be restarted because /etc/cups/cupsd.conf wasn't readable.  It all worked for 
> F7.  Just another of those things that make you go Hummm.
> 
> Is this a usual occurence(sp)?

I think there was a thread about selinux and printers in the recent past.
You might take a look for it in the archives and see if it looks related
to your problem.