CUPS fails to start, or starts very slowly in RHEL 7 due to "colord" service failure

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After CUPS service restart, the lpstat command doesn't work for 30 minutes.
  • After scheduled reboot, CUPS service stopped working. I am not able to run any lp commands.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.6.3
  • colord-1.3.4

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