Thank you for confirming my situation...I had wondered if the layered filesystem was the culprit.

Yes, indeed, I am running 4.3.1 from (you guessed it) a flash drive.

Do you feel that my workaround (modifying /etc/init.d/cups) is the best solution for this problem?

I don't see a difference in the permissions of the /var/spool/cups directory when cups gives the error vs. when everything is working normally. They are identical in both instances (root:root), so it seems that when cups is restarted (or just started) with the /var/spool/cups directory missing, cups...

Also, I want to point out that with the fix from my above post, I am NOT having xav's problem with the spool directory still containing files. Everything gets removed - I've also noticed that NOW (after using fix), cups automaticly deletes the processed/completed jobs after a few minutes. I can look...

Update: The modified startup script continues to work flawlessly :) For anyone who is interested in finding out why this has to be done, I've found something interesting: If the modified startup script is not used, at the next boot, we will receive the dreaded "Unable to open file "/var/sp...

Ok so the shutdown script did have some unwanted side effects....caused a problem loading cups at the next boot. Here is my FINAL solution, this one is tested confirmed working great. Simply edit the /etc/init.d/cups file: Find the section of the script for start: case $1 in start | restart | reload...

Thanks for the reply jpeps It would seem to me that this problem is un-related to corrupted file system, since both xav795 and myself have completely started from scracth (and a new puppy). I have completely re-formatted my drive and started over, even though I had no reason to believe that my files...

I'm having an identical problem to xav795's. I'm using the cups 1.3.11 pet, and everything works fine until I reboot. Then printing no longer works, and I begin getting permission denied errors. The only solution is to delete the /var/spool/cups directory, and restart cups. I've tried a complete rei...