[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#343400: Still unable to reinstall cupsys after failed port configuration

David Creelman dave at geko.net.au
Mon Dec 19 03:26:47 UTC 2005


Hi,

I am still unable to install cupsys due to a previous incorrect setting
of port and hostname for my printer.

When I get the error, I get told to run dpkg-reconfigure, but I cannot
as this package is not correctly installed. This is a chicken and egg
problem I don't know how to solve.

I have tried to remove the .template files from /var/lib/dpkg/info, but
it still doesn't want to work. I get the following error when I try to
install cupsys.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  cupsys-driver-gutenprint cupsys-driver-gimpprint foomatic-filters-ppds
  xpdf-korean xpdf-japanese xpdf-chinese-traditional
xpdf-chinese-simplified
  cups-pdf hplip
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cupsys
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 8965kB of archives.
After unpacking 16.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://debian.ihug.com.au unstable/main cupsys 1.1.23-14 [8965kB]
Fetched 8965kB in 8s
(1095kB/s)                                                  
Preconfiguring packages ...
Illegal port value for CUPS. Please correct this by running
'dpkg-reconfigure cupsys'.
cupsys failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package cupsys.
(Reading database ... 175189 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cupsys (from .../cupsys_1.1.23-14_i386.deb) ...
Setting up cupsys (1.1.23-14) ...
Illegal port value for CUPS. Please correct this by running
'dpkg-reconfigure cupsys'.
dpkg: error processing cupsys (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cupsys
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Regards
David

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