package cups 1.6.1-0ubuntu11.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Anit Shrestha Manandhar]

anit@anit-ThinkPad-T520:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
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Sorry, try again.
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  apport apport-gtk cups-filters firefox gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gnome-online-accounts
  gnome-screensaver initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin
  language-selector-common language-selector-gnome libcupsfilters1 libgail-3-0
  libgoa-1.0-0 libgoa-1.0-common libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common
  libpoppler-glib8 libpython2.7 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libxml2
  libxml2:i386 poppler-utils python-libxml2 python2.7 python2.7-minimal
  software-properties-common software-properties-gtk telepathy-gabble
  telepathy-idle thunderbird thunderbird-gnome-support thunderbird-locale-en
  udisks
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up cups (1.6.1-0ubuntu11.5) ...
AppArmor parser error for /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd at line 24: Invalid capability block_suspend.
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
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of printer-driver-hpcups:
 printer-driver-hpcups depends on cups; however:
  Package cups is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing printer-driver-hpcups (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hplip:
 hplip depends on printer-driver-hpcups (= 3.12.6-3ubuntu4.3); however:
  Package printer-driver-hpcups is not configured yet.
 hplip depends on cups (>= 1.1.20); however:
  Package cups is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hplip (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 cups
 printer-driver-hpcups
 hplip
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
anit@anit-ThinkPad-T520:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  apport apport-gtk cups-filters firefox gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gnome-online-accounts
  gnome-screensaver initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin
  language-selector-common language-selector-gnome libcupsfilters1 libgail-3-0
  libgoa-1.0-0 libgoa-1.0-common libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common
  libpoppler-glib8 libpython2.7 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libxml2
  libxml2:i386 poppler-utils python-libxml2 python2.7 python2.7-minimal
  software-properties-common software-properties-gtk telepathy-gabble
  telepathy-idle thunderbird thunderbird-gnome-support thunderbird-locale-en
  udisks
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up cups (1.6.1-0ubuntu11.5) ...
AppArmor parser error for /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd at line 24: Invalid capability block_suspend.
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
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of printer-driver-hpcups:
 printer-driver-hpcups depends on cups; however:
  Package cups is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing printer-driver-hpcups (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hplip:
 hplip depends on printer-driver-hpcups (= 3.12.6-3ubuntu4.3); however:
  Package printer-driver-hpcups is not configured yet.
 hplip depends on cups (>= 1.1.20); however:
  Package cups is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hplip (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 cups
 printer-driver-hpcups
 hplip
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: cups 1.6.1-0ubuntu11.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-19.33~precise1-generic 3.11.10.5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
AptOrdering:
 cups: Configure
 printer-driver-hpcups: Configure
 hplip: Configure
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: E [20/Apr/2014:08:30:45 +0545] Unknown directive SystemGroup on line 16 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
Date: Sun Apr 20 10:48:18 2014
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20140204)
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Transport endpoint is not connected
MachineType: LENOVO 423946U
MarkForUpload: True
Papersize: letter
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-19-generic root=UUID=40a7982e-a85f-4e3d-a7a7-e338fbdcf13e ro recovery nomodeset
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-19-generic root=UUID=40a7982e-a85f-4e3d-a7a7-e338fbdcf13e ro recovery nomodeset
SourcePackage: cups
Title: package cups 1.6.1-0ubuntu11.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/06/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 8AET56WW (1.36 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 423946U
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:bvr8AET56WW(1.36):bd12/06/2011:svnLENOVO:pn423946U:pvrThinkPadT520:rvnLENOVO:rn423946U:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 423946U
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T520
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Anitshrestha
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with updating the cups package. You made this bug report in 2014 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and cups 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 run the following (only once):
apport-collect 1310192
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and cups better.
G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for cups (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]