aa-status is part of the apparmor package aa-disabled is part of the apparmor-utils package
the package split is done to reduce the install foot print to a minimum for base installs, iso images etc. The failure of the apparmor_parser -R is odd, perhaps the profile had been already removed by a previous action? Profiles exist in two places on the system, their text representation stored in the filesystem in userspace and their binary representation in that is loaded into the kernel, either during boot or package install, etc. You can find out your loaded set of profiles via the aa-status command (root privs required), or by directly poking the lower level interface. Either using a simplied file based view cat /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles or a slightly more detail directory based view ls /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/policy/profiles/ Generally I would agree that you shouldn't disable apparmor, however I am a pragmatist and believe security is useless if it prevents you from doing the work you need to get done. I am going to add a task for cups and see if the those more familiar with cups have any ideas. best of luck on your roll back. ** Also affects: cups (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251973 Title: Printing denied since upgrade Status in “apparmor” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu 13.10 amd64, Patchlevel today DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=saucy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.10" Since upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 this system can't print anything. By searching i found this in dmesg [ 3098.185896] type=1400 audit(1384676379.061:70): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=2878 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name="/home/.ecryptfs/eric/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase" pid=3347 comm="cupsd" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000 It does not matter what and which driver in cups is used, the printing is denied and no printout file appears. No spoolfile for the driver appears, but a new DENIED comes up. From the cups side everything is fine, but is is blocked from apparmor in some way. localhost - - [17/Nov/2013:09:43:55 +0100] "POST /printers/HL4150CDN HTTP/1.1" 200 871814 Print-Job successful-ok localhost - - [17/Nov/2013:09:45:31 +0100] "POST /printers/PDF HTTP/1.1" 200 871685 Print-Job successful-ok ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: apparmor 2.8.0-0ubuntu31 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Nov 17 09:35:42 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-18 (182 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-13-generic root=UUID=0bfe05f6-2c8a-45f9-ac88-5f432f139de8 ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash elevator=deadline vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: apparmor Syslog: UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (29 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/1251973/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp