[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#323012: cups-pdf: "failed to set file mode for PDF file"

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Victor Sanz wrote:

> Package: cupsys
> Version: 1.7.0a-1

Wait... Is this a report on cups-pdf or on cupsys?

> I have suffered a problem with similar symptoms to bug #301406. But in my 
> system the problem afects all users including root:
>
> Sun Aug 14 01:17:46 2005  [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file 
> (/root/cups-pdf/Test_Page.pdf)

Another issue here is whether you indeed are on a Debian system or on Ubuntu.
Some settings must be changed to be able to use cups-pdf on Ubuntu, otherwise 
cups-pdf indeed cannot set the permissions, because Ubuntu maintainers modified 
it to run as a non-root user.

> After some experimenting I've found that installing the package gs-gpl,  and 
> restarting the virtual printer after that, seems to solve the problem.
> Are cupspdf or cupsys packages dependant from gs?

cupsys depends on gs-eps, which provides the Ghostscript we need.

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