Intrepid Beta missing CUPS service in Gnome Services Administration Tool

[Wicked]

Binary package hint: system-services

Due to this being a default open port on Ubuntu especially as no firewall is enabled/configured by default I have included it as a security vulnerability. (I have seen a hacker spew several hundred pages of ... well I can't mention what the picture was but needless to say no firewall rules and a printing service can be entertaining but none the less a vulnerability).

On Ubuntu 8.10 Beta CUPS printing service is enabled by default. On Previous versions of Ubuntu there was always a check box to disable the service in System/Administration/Services (the Services Administration Tool) but in the 8.10 Beta the Service is missing thus it has to be stopped from the command prompt and disabled in /etc/init.d manually.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

That's a bug in services-admin probably related to the changed package name from cupsys to cups in Intrepid, reassigning

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Àlex Magaz (rivaldi8)]

This patch solves the problem. It goes on top of the patches in debian/patches.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This is still an issue with Jaunty, confirming, thanks for the report and patch.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Uploaded. Sitting in the archive admin queue.

I changed the patch to just add 'cups' instead of removing 'cupsys' and 'cupsd'. Seems that's how gnome-system-tools does it. Thanks again.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-system-tools - 2.22.2-0ubuntu2

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gnome-system-tools (2.22.2-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/10_add_missing_services.patch: add 'cups' as print server.
    Thanks Alex Magaz. (LP: #283327)

 -- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:34:32 +0100

[rannsaicher (rannsaicher)]

I upgraded last night(1 aug 2009) from Intrepid to jaunty, having upgraded from hardy to Intrepid last week
At the intrepid stage I noticed my printiong had failed, found no cups service running and no cups service in the gnome services list
this is also the case with Jaunty.
 my printing has stopped working, the cups service is not in the services list, the etc/init.d contains an entry for cups which is a link to a non existing etc/init.d/cupsys
I have cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu 3.2 and gnome-system-tools (2.22.2-0ubuntu2)
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[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

rannsaicher,
On my jaunty system /etc/init.d/cups is not a symlink, so this probably is a left over from the upgrades.
Reinstalling cups with the following command should solve your problem:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall cups

[rannsaicher (rannsaicher)]

Pascal
Thanks for that
I needed to delete the link and then did the reinstall, and every thing came right.
Perhaps a reconfigure would have done the job also.