cupsys 1.2.8-0ubuntu5 is uninstallable due to "status 2" error

[Daniel Gurgel]

Instalando cupsys (1.2.8-0ubuntu5) ...
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd cupsd: Child exited with status 2!
invoke-rc.d: initscript cupsys, action "start" failed.
dpkg: erro processando cupsys (--configure):
 subprocesso post-installation script retornou código de saída de error 2
Erros foram encontrados durante processamento de:
 cupsys
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 14 12:01:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-10-386 #2 Sun Mar 11 23:59:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Matt Sicker (jvz)]

Same problem here:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd cupsd: Child exited with status 2!

The man page for cupsd doesn't mention any possible error statuses, so that should also be dealt with...