[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#513387: /etc/cups/interfaces missing on my system

[Marc Haber]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.9-2
Severity: important

Hi,

on my system, /etc/cups/interfaces seems to have vanished. Is it
possible that there is some cups package missing on my system which
takes care of /etc/cups/interfaces and which should have been pulled
in via Depends, or is there something locally broken?

In any case, I keep getting tons of strange "unable to" do things
(such as "Unable to copy PPD file!"), and when I strace the cupsd, I
always see it trying to access some files in the non-existent
directory /etc/cups/interfaces.

Please advise asap.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.2-nc8000 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser            3.110                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                 1.06.94-3             The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-common        1.3.9-2               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24                Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript        8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny0 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-li 0.6.23-4              Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6              2.7-18                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2           1.3.8-1lenny4.1       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2      1.3.9-2               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.1-5               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1            1:4.3.3-1             GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26        2.4.2-4               the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libijs-0.35        0.35-6                IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb53           1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2      2.4.11-1              OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g           1.0.1-5               Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1          1.1.23+nmu1           library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler3        0.8.7-1               PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1            1.2.1-7.5             OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6         4.3.3-1               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base           3.2-20                Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules       5.10.0-19             Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpd 0.8.7-1               PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps             1:3.2.7-11            /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert           1.0.23                simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils           0.6.23-4           Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cups-client           1.3.9-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  gsfonts-x11           0.21               Make Ghostscript fonts available t
ii  smbclient             2:3.2.5-4          a LanManager-like simple client fo
ii  ttf-freefont          20080323-3         Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.3.9-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint  <none>           (no description available)
ii  cups-pdf                2.4.8-4          PDF printer for CUPS
ii  foomatic-db             20080211-2+nmu1  OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                   2.8.7-1          HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: false
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd