missing ssl-certificate results in misleading error "Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

[H.-Dirk Schmitt]

Binary package hint: cups

if the symlink /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt is broken (e.g. snakeoil certificate removed by incident)
in the syslog occures the following misleading error message:

Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!

In contradiction the entry in the cups/error.log is more helpfull ;-)
 "/etc/cups/ssl/server.crt" is a bad symlink - No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
 LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/games:/c42home/username/bin
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
SourcePackage: cups
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic x86_64

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello H. Dirk,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with cups and printing. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu has been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know, and in the current version, run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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