Unable to start CUPS in RHEL

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Issue

  • We are not able to start cups service:

    # service cups status
    cupsd dead but pid file exists
    
  • CUPS stopped working, killed it, but when attempting to restart, it will not restart.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.3.7

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