Oracle Linux: CUPS Service Fails to Start with Error "cups.service: Failed with result exit-code"

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 8.0 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

cups.service fails to start after the server upgraded to OL8 from OL7 using Leapp utility. All the 3 services related to cups fails to start. 

[root@<HOSTNAME> 09:26:23][/]# systemctl status cups.service cups.path cups.socket

● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2024-10-07 09:20:06 EDT; 12min ago

Docs: man:cupsd(8)

Process: 52861 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Main PID: 52861 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 07 09:20:06 <HOSTNAME> systemd[1]: cups.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE