Ubuntu
cupsys package

cupsys doesn't start on readonly /usr

Bug #9212 reported by Sven Wilhelm on 2004-10-18

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cupsys (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Cupsys failed to start on a readonly /usr filesystem.

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* Starting Common Unix Printing System...
chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/share/cups/model': Read-only file system
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Revision history for this message

Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2004-10-18:

patch to fix this Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain)

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patch to fix this

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2004-10-18:

Fixed in:
cupsys (1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4ubuntu16) warty; urgency=low
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   * cupsys.init.d: do not exit the script if chmod/chown of the printer driver
     directory fails; route error message to /dev/null. This allows to have a
     read-only /usr partition. (Warty bug #9212)