I'll place this comment here with great trepidation. I've had this problem for some time and I've been starting cups manually. I do not have the skill to do the work arounds that have been suggested. My initial approach was to try the old uninstall reinstall using synaptic on my kubuntu 64bit installation. But to no avail. Cups would just not load at start up. Eventually I reinstalled from the console using
$> sudo apt-get install --reinstall cups (a solution I found on http://hardc0l2e.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/cups- not-running-on-boot-ubuntu-10-04/) and for some reason it worked. It has been two days and I have done 10 cold restarts and cups has loaded each time. I can't explain it, it just worked. I do not place this here as a solution but just to say that for some basic users such as myself this has worked and it may be worth looking at why. -- CUPS and other system services not starting at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
