I eventually pinned this down to it leaving some .../backend/serial process running. If I stop the cups service, then kill that backend, I can successfully restart cups ... otherwise, the restart usually hangs indefinitely.
Anyone else see this? A quick google didn't seem to show anything up.
-- [neil@xxx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@xxx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@xxx ~]# exit