[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#374150: cupsys: web interface quite broken

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: normal

I can display the root page of the web interface (http://localhost:631),
but not much beyond.  First, entering the Administration area results
in "Unable to open cupsd.conf file: Permission denied" even after I
authenticated as root.  Clicking on Printers tab gives a page with
"Error: Bad Request" and this in the error log:

E [17/Jun/2006:10:18:02 -0400] Bad request line "DEBUG: show_all_printers(http=0x8070c30, user="root")" from localhost!

(In fact, _any_ action seems to result in an error log like
E [17/Jun/2006:10:19:22 -0400] Bad URI "http=0x80772c0" in request!
even if it succeeds.)

Lastly, clicking the "Edit Configuration File" button results in yet
another error page, this time "Error: No such file or directory"

CUPS seems to have entered a period of severe instability, I'll have to
switch back to lpr for a while :-(

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-8custom2-ps2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.87            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.1           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libacl1                  2.2.37-1        Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.1-2         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.1-2         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.61-6          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.3.5-1.1       the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.17          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-10          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-4         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2.2     /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-8          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.2.1-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
pn  smbclient               <none>           (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/browse: false
  cupsys/ports: 127.0.0.1:631
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
  cupsys/portserror: