Ubuntu
cups package

  1. Bug #672438
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 672438

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

perpetualrabbit,

indeed this looks unrelated to the upstart job. The problem with /etc/cups symlinks is that if you have one, cupsd seems to die immediately, and then upstart tries to start it again:

$ ls -ld /etc/cups*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-05-25 10:13 /etc/cups -> cups.real
drwxr-xr-x 4 root lp 4096 2011-05-25 10:00 /etc/cups.real

$ sudo strace cupsd -f
[...]
open("/etc/cups/cupsd.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 4
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
close(4) = 0
exit_group(1) = ?

Now, I have no immediate idea why cupsd would get an EACCESS error on opening /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, I can even run it as non-root just fine:

$ head -n1 /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
LogLevel warn

So this should be reported as a separate bug, preferably right at http://cups.org/str.php. Thanks!