Comment 7 for bug 91983

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 06:42:12 Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Can you do
>
> ls -l /usr/lib/cups/daemon/
> ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend*
>
> Perhaps there are files with bad permissions/ownerships

No, the cupsys update (including the last one) is broken in that it tries to
install some -dev packages that have unresolved dependencies so the whole
install fails and leaves the existing CUPS in an indeterminate state.

I resolved the problem, temporarily, by purging CUPSYS and installing the
1.2.8-0ubuntu6 packages manually. The -devs are still broken, but the mains
will install fine locally from .debs and CUPS goes back to work.

One loses any installed printers and configurations in the purge,
unfortunately, but they now can be put back, and it's a small price to pay to
be able to print at all.

Oh, the joys of working with a pre-release operating system, eh?

Ron Morse