a stop job is running for make remote cups printers available locally

Question

At almost each shutdown of my Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit, I must wait ages at:

a stop job is running for make remote cups printers available locally

Some information I find most useful:

1. I have one installed local USB printer unattached unless I need it.

2. That said, I don't have an idea what the system is waiting for.

3. The printer is HP, so HPLIP has been installed.

4. I repeat, that at shutdown, the printer is never attached to the USB.

5. But typically once a week I need to print on it.

6. May I disable the cups-browsed service to solve this?

I mean:

sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed.service

And the printer would still work?

Solution

At first glance on its Ubuntu man page:

cups-browsed - A daemon for browsing the Bonjour broadcasts of shared, remote CUPS printers.

it is safe to assume disabling it will not affect printer connected locally.

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It turns out, that the printer functionality is not damaged by disabling the cups-browsed service:

sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed.service
sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed.service

So, no longer endless waiting for the computer to reboot! 😎