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

[Victor Sanz]

Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Victor Sanz wrote:
>
>> Package: cupsys
>> Version: 1.7.0a-1
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>
> Wait... Is this a report on cups-pdf or on cupsys?


Ooops, sorry for the mistake, I wanted to say Package cups-pdf.

>
>> 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.

This is a  Debian Sarge.

>> 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.
>
But: cupsys only recommends gs-esp. I think this is related to bug 
#312244 . I think one of cupsys or cups-pdf must depend on ghostscript 
to make the package functional and to avoid the problem and the 
confusing messages in the cups-pdf.log

Victor