CUPS not starting after RHEL reboots

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Issue

  • CUPS will not start automatically after RHEL reboots, even though it is enabled:

    # systemctl enable cups
    # systemctl start cups
    # systemctl status cups
    cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
       Active: active (running) since Thu 2015-06-25 07:34:03 PDT; 1s ago
     Main PID: 1095 (cupsd)
       CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service
               └─1095 /usr/sbin/cupsd -f
    # reboot
    

    Wait for system to reboot.

    #systemctl status cups
    cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
       Active: inactive (dead)
    
  • Running "systemctl enable cups" doesn't make cups start on boot. Running "systemctl start cups" works as expected.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.6.3

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