Ubuntu
cupsys package

  1. Bug #40795
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 40795

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joosteto (ubuntu-joostje) wrote : Re: cannot write /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat

The bug seems to be marked as fixed, but I just booted from ubuntu-6.06-desktop-i386.iso (release), and I got the same.

root@ubuntu:/var/cache# chmod a+rw -R /var/cache/cups
root@ubuntu:/var/cache# /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
 * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ ok ]

Then pressing "OK" and apply everywhere (reasonable defaults come up for my PSC 2175), gnome-cups-add prints as last line:
** (gnome-cups-add:9563): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280

In /var/log/cups/error_log I get:
E [04/Jun/2006:17:00:34 +0000] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized

This is with the released CD, as far as I can tell:
o# dd if=/dev/hdd bs=1 count=731744256|md5sum
e2e5e0bfb2edffd2ce02dd77bda4558e -

(/dev/hdd contains the CD I just booted up from)