Bug#372493: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#372493: cupsys: unable to print, configure, or check status in 1.2.1-2

[Moshe Yudkowsky]

At 13:09 2006-06-09, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>severity 372493 important
>tags 372493 pending
>thanks
>
>pe, 2006-06-09 kello 12:23 -0500, Moshe Yudkowsky kirjoitti:
> > Package: cupsys
> > Version: 1.2.1-2
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> >
> > I simply cannot get cupsys to run after my upgrade to 1.2.1-2. Printing 
> does not work, and the usual admin tools do not work either.
>
> > This smells like an authorization problem to me, but I can't figure out 
> where the problem is.
>
>I noticed this issue myself yesterday.
>
>Actually, this is a file permission and/or ownership issue on the
>configuration file.  There are two solutions to this:
>
>1) chmod a+r /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>or
>2) chown root.lp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>
>The CUPS maintainer team shall upload new packages shortly.


My cupsd.conf file had group of lpadmin, if I recall correctly, and I am 
fairly certain I also tried "lp" as the group.


I tried a few different work arounds. Just before your email arrived, I did 
this, which worked to at least be able to start the printer:

echo Port 631 > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

I then saved a change on the /admin page, and went into the "edit config" 
page. I saw an entire config file. This new config file has user root and 
group root.

However, I still could not print out - the printer would stop. I had to go 
to /var/spool/cups and change the group of the waiting spool file from root 
to lpadmin.

Currently, the new print jobs have user/group of root/lp, and the system is 
working. I look forward to an official fix!

Regards,
  Moshe




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