[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#462149: cupsys: "Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": Permission, denied"

[Wolf-Dieter Groll]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4etch2
Severity: normal


After installing a plain etch last year (4.0r0) and just now after
upgrading cups to 1.2.7 it was
impossible to print
to a printer connected to /dev/lp0, even so I'm a member of the 'lp'-group:

crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 2008-01-20 20:01 /dev/lp0

Setting permissions to 666 of /dev/lp0 helped up to the next reboot.

In my case, the problem could be solved setting the group of
usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel to 'lp'
and setting the GID-Bit (chmod 2755 parallel):

-rwxr-sr-x 2 root lp  13K 2007-12-24 22:50 parallel

Thus I'm able to print again, probably up to the next cupsys-update and
hopefully beyond...

Regards
  Wolf-Dieter Groll

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common          1.2.7-4etch2      Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) -
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.11            Debian configuration
management sy
ii  gs-esp                 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1   The Ghostscript PostScript
interpr
ii  libacl1                2.2.41-1          Access control list shared
library
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2          1.2.7-4etch2      Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) -
ii  libcupsys2             1.2.7-4etch2      Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) -
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.0.2-1           simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13            1.4.4-3           the GNU TLS library -
runtime libr
ii  libldap2               2.1.30-13.3       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g               0.79-4            Pluggable Authentication
Modules l
ii  libpaper1              1.1.21            Library for handling paper
charact
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-6.2         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1
init scrip
ii  patch                  2.5.9-4           Apply a diff file to an
original
ii  perl-modules           5.8.8-7etch1      Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf-ut 0.4.5-5.1etch1    PDF utilitites (based on
libpopple
ii  procps                 1:3.2.7-3         /proc file system utilities
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-13        compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client         1.2.7-4etch2       Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) -
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer
support
pn  smbclient             <none>             (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb

-- 


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

  Wolf-Dieter Groll
  

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