Print Service Unavailable: Bad file descriptor

[Kobold]

I also had this issue, thanks this fixed the issue for me… quick and easy

[Steve_757]

This worked for me, thanks! The recent updates appear to have stopped my printer services.

[buzzmandt]

This worked for me…

systemctl enable cups.service

and

systemctl start cups.service

[Carsten87]

This should be the accepted answer! Thanks a lot!

[YoungFellow]

I tried that but it gave me the following:

~ >>> systemctl enable cups.service                                         
~ >>> systemctl start cups.service                                          
for cups.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
"systemctl status cups.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

So I did what it said:

~ >>> systemctl status cups.service                                   

● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor >
     Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-11-29 15:21>
TriggeredBy: ● cups.path
             ● cups.socket
       Docs: man:cupsd(8)
    Process: 11896 ExecStart=/usr/bin/cupsd -l (code=exited, status=1/FAILU>
   Main PID: 11896 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restar>
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: Dependency failed for CUPS Scheduler.
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: cups.service: Job cups.service/start failed>

Then…

 ~ >>> journalctl -xe
                                                  
░░  
░░ The job identifier is 4394.
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: cups.socket: Start request repeated too qui>
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: cups.socket: Failed with result 'start-limi>
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░  
░░ The unit cups.socket has entered the 'failed' state with result 'start-l>
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: Failed to listen on CUPS Scheduler.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit cups.socket has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░  
░░ A start job for unit cups.socket has finished with a failure.
░░  
░░ The job identifier is 4394 and the job result is failed.
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: Dependency failed for CUPS Scheduler.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit cups.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░  
░░ A start job for unit cups.service has finished with a failure.
░░  
░░ The job identifier is 4294 and the job result is dependency.
Nov 29 15:21:36 ALU systemd[1]: cups.service: Job cups.service/start failed>

But I can’t really make anything out of it.
Also, what does the author of this post mean by saying:

@Error

I removed the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file and replaced it with /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default . Then I restarted the CUPS service using sudo systemctl restart --now org.cups.cupsd.service

[Damian24]

Thank you, it works ! Great.

[hazeley]

Thanks, just love this community, works every time!

[Smitty52]

Thanks huebi! It fixed the problem perfectly.

[robin0800]

The main problem is the renaming of cupsd to cups.
If the print service is set up with cupsd this needs to be disabled

sudo systemctl disable --now cupsd

and now enable cups

sudo systemctl enable --now cups

[electrifyings]

Thanks, this helped me resolve the issue.

[BigBrother]

Thanks!
If this is true, then the line in the wiki has to be changed:
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Printing#Enabling_Printing_Capabilities

@Error Please change the “solution flag”.

@philm

CUPS update need manual intervention

After you update your system, update your systemd services like this:

sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.socket
sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.path
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.service
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.socket
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.path

[mgundogdu]

@huebi

sudo systemctl enable cups.service

Thank youuuu!

[winoseti]

yes but how do you open as root? dolphin wont let you open and dolphin wont start as root.

[winoseti]

@huebi

sudo systemctl enable cups.service

sudo systemctl enable cups.service fixed it for me.

[2old4gaming]

Linux noob here. I haven’t needed to print in awhile. I opened a Term session at /etc/cups sudo rm cupsd.conf but how do I replace the file with cupsd.conf.default?

Thanks. It’s obviously not working for me but, not a huge deal, I’m obviously here because it wasn’t working anyway. That an update broke my ability to print …I printed a small PDF and pages of gibberish were coming out—I just yanked the plug from my printer. I don’t even know how to kill print jobs in Linux.

EDIT: sudo cp cupsd.conf.default cupsd.conf then enabled it, opened System Settings > Printers BOOM! It’s there! Baby steps…

[Remsky]

Hi
I’m stuck at line 4 (sudo systemctl enable --now cups.service)

Job for cups.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status cups.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

Noob, so not sure what to do next …

systemctl status cups.service

● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-12-22 16:53:15 GMT; 5min ago
TriggeredBy: ● cups.path
● cups.socket
Docs: man:cupsd(8)
Process: 6897 ExecStart=/usr/bin/cupsd -l (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 6897 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Dec 22 16:53:15 Greenx systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 25.
Dec 22 16:53:15 Greenx systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
Dec 22 16:53:15 Greenx systemd[1]: Dependency failed for CUPS Scheduler.
Dec 22 16:53:15 Greenx systemd[1]: cups.service: Job cups.service/start failed with result ‘dependency’.

Thanks for any help

[McMarius11]

thanks, this fixed my problem

[Error]

I used the command line (sudo)

[djet]

Excellent for all of us that love Linux but not great/ amateurs on typing in commands thanks a million