reassign 823744 cups-daemon tags 823744 unreproducible moreinfo thanks
Thank you for your report, Benoit. On Sun 08 May 2016 at 13:32:43 +0200, Benoit Panizzon wrote: > I was not able to modify any printers anymore. So somehow my config got broken > and I was not able to figure out why. > > Usual way to fix such a problem is to purge the package and config. > > apt-get purge --auto-remove cups cups-common > > (and then manualy removing /etc/cups/ as the post install script could not > remove it because > not empty) > > and then: apt-get install cups > > This results in a broken installation as /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is not created. > > What could be the cause of the problem? Pass! I have tried your sequence of commands a dozen times and on each occasion cupsd.conf ended up in /etc/cups. Is the behaviour you observe reproducible for you? The cups-daemon package is responsible for copying cupsd.conf from the cups directory in /usr/share (cupsd.conf.default). If it could not do so we'd expect something in the logs or to appear onscreen. Does the command 'journalctl' indicate anything? How do you go on with apt-get --reinstall install cups-daemon after installing cups? Regards, Brian. (Not a maintainer).