cupsd won't start due to new initscripts package (tmpfs on /var/run)

[Michael Bienia]

cupsd fails to start because it can't write its pid file to /var/run/cups.
/var/run/cups is missing because the new initscript package mounts a tmpfs on
/var/run and the cupsys initscript doesn't check if /var/run/cups is there and
creates it if necessary.

[Rui Matos (tiagomatos)]

This also happens with apache2. Maybe this bug should be reassigned to the
initscripts package?

[Rui Matos (tiagomatos)]

Doing this after the system is running fixes it for me:

sudo mkdir /var/run/cups
sudo invoke-rc.d cupsys restart

[Michael Hofmann (mh21)]

Created an attachment (id=5636)
Proposed fix for the cups init script

Permissions seem to be set by cups later on

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 cupsys (1.1.99.b1.r4841-1ubuntu7) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/cupsys.init.d: Make sure that the PID file directory /var/run/cups
     exists. The new approach of mounting /var/run as tmpfs removes the
     directory that is shipped in the deb. (Ubuntu #22261)