package cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Lazy]

This error happened during todays package upgrades. Then I tried to run "sudo apt-get upgrade" from terminal, but the same error came also up from there.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-030400rc2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
AptOrdering: cups: Configure
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog:

Date: Thu Apr 12 17:17:28 2012
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Setting up cups (1.5.2-9ubuntu1) ...
 start: Job failed to start
 invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed.
 dpkg: error processing cups (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
DuplicateSignature:
 Setting up cups (1.5.2-9ubuntu1) ...
 start: Job failed to start
 invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed.
 dpkg: error processing cups (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Connection refused
MachineType: LENOVO 4290W4H
Papersize: letter
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.4.0-030400rc2-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
Title: package cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/07/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 8DET50WW (1.20 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 4290W4H
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET50WW(1.20):bd07/07/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4290W4H:pvrThinkPadX220:rvnLENOVO:rn4290W4H:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 4290W4H
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Seems that CUPS does not start after the update.

Please run the following commands in a terminal window:

  wget http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/tmp/cups.upstart.debug
  sudo cp /etc/init/cups.conf{,.orig}
  sudo cp cups.upstart.debug /etc/init/cups.conf
  sudo stop cups
  sudo start cups

This should fail again. Please attach /tmp/log here.

After that, please restore the original script again with

  sudo mv /etc/init/cups.conf{.orig,}

Thanks!

Most probably the same problem as bug 968956.

[Lazy (ubuntu-bugs-oittaa)]

$ sudo start cups
start: Job failed to start

$ cat /tmp/log
+ [ -x /usr/sbin/cupsd ]
+ [ -r /etc/default/cups ]
+ . /etc/default/cups
+ LOAD_LP_MODULE=yes
+ [ yes = yes -a -f /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel -a -f /proc/modules -a -x /sbin/modprobe ]
+ modprobe -q -b lp
+ modprobe -q -b ppdev
+ modprobe -q -b parport_pc
+ mkdir -p /var/run/cups/certs
+ [ -x /lib/init/apparmor-profile-load ]
+ /lib/init/apparmor-profile-load usr.sbin.cupsd
/sbin/apparmor_parser: Unable to replace "/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf". Profile doesn't conform to protocol
Warning failed to create cache: usr.sbin.cupsd