cups daemon fails to start on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cups stopped working initially with segfault:
Nov 19 16:41:06 localhost kernel: cupsd[5580]: segfault at 00002b651b0e9168 rip 00002b64b7473e66 rsp 00007fff16970960 error 4
  • On attempting to restart the service the command below does not return to the prompt :
# service cups start
  • The cupsd daemon is running but cannot connect to the service e.g. using lpstat

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • cups-1.3.7-11.el5-x86_64

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