CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/16/14 09:38, Claude Jones wrote:
> On 04/15/2014 05:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>
>> There isn't such a thing (AFAIK) as service.service.  Try this, as root:
>>
>> systemctl start cups.service
>>
>> And see if it starts up properly.
>
> well, there is no output at all when I run that, but if I check the status after running it, I get the same as I posted earlier:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# systemctl start cups.service
> [root at localhost ~]# systemctl status cups service
> cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2014-04-15 21:14:53 EDT; 33s ago
>   Process: 3663 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f (code=killed, signal=TERM)
>  Main PID: 3663 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
>
>
>
> Apr 15 21:14:53 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
>
> service.service
>    Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>
>
> BUT: I see an error in that status command - it should say cups.service so I try again:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# systemctl status cups.service
> cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2014-04-15 21:14:53 EDT; 4min 7s ago
>   Process: 3663 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f (code=killed, signal=TERM)
>  Main PID: 3663 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
>
>

Does it die if you try to start cupsd manually from the command line?

[root at meimei ]# /usr/sbin/cupsd -f

for example....




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