Comment 14 for bug 55828

Well, that did exactly the same as before.

I merged /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf and ports.conf into /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, commented out the data in those two files and restarted cups. I tried to create a new printer using the KDE printer manager (ipp://server:631/printers/printername), selected the correct model and gave it the correct PPD file (from /etc/cups/ppd/) but it does exactly the same. Prints a few lines of garbage.

I also tried the lpadmin way and that produced a printer that at least can print, but somehow broke all admin interfaces on the two Dappers.

Now, when I try to check out http://localhost:631 and view my printers I just get a page with "Bad request" where the printers should be, so now it's more broken than before. Trying to rename the printer with the KDE printer tool gives me a simple error dialog with: "Unable to change printer properties. Error received from manager: client-error-not-found". No sane information is shown about the printer either, it is recognized as a "Local printer" insted of an ipp:// printer as it should be.

Pascal, thanks a lot for your patient help. I think we just need to wait for the CUPS folks to fix the bugs and then I probably need to reinstall the systems in order to get it working as it should. This should teach me to blindly apply package upgrades. :(