cups cannot be started via initctl

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: cups

After upgrade to Maverick I cannot print on two computers. Both computers failed the upgrade to Maverick because of a hung 'start cups'-process. I had to kill it to be able to continue with the upgrade.

If I do 'sudo start cups' it just hangs indefinitely.

I did 'dpkg --force-all --purge cups cups-common' and 'rm -rf /etc/cups' and then reinstalled it. Same problem?! Reinstalling failed until I manually killed the 'start cups'-process.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: cups 1.4.4-6ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 26 19:58:43 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Connection refused
MachineType: LENOVO 6458VJJ
Papersize: letter
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=1b82f1ea-b409-462f-8de0-ce3251f89692 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cups
dmi.bios.date: 05/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC6WW (2.26 )
dmi.board.name: 6458VJJ
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:bvr7LETC6WW(2.26):bd05/11/2009:svnLENOVO:pn6458VJJ:pvrThinkPadT61p:rvnLENOVO:rn6458VJJ:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 6458VJJ
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61p
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

Maybe a strace of 'start cups' can be useful so I'm attaching it.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Issue of CUPS upstartification. pitti, can you have a look?

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

I found this in syslog, looks related:

Nov 3 10:25:01 thonov-ubuntu kernel: [48476.945856] type=1400 audit(1288776301.870:17): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=19664 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name="/home/.ecryptfs/thonov/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase" pid=19683 comm="cupsd" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

After fiddling around a bit this problem disappeared. Don't really know what did it. Think it started to work again after replacing /etc/cups with the folder from my old Lucid-installation, except for printers.conf. Also added a printer and after that it worked.

Computer #2 that had this problem has also cups working fine now. There I haven't done any changes IIRC though. Maybe some update fixed it? Both are up-to-date as of 2010-11-05.