>Have you already tried to reboot? I'm using a LiveUSB. I can't reboot. >Have you tried to manually kill instances of cupsd and cups-browsed? That just sounds wrong. (or am I wrong?) But no I have not tried that.
For now I just purge cups-daemon & cups-browsed packages before I upgrade packages. Problem solved. Sorta. -- 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/1349051 Title: Cannot stop cups-daemon, cups-browsed servers after upgrading certain packages 14.04 Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Cups needs to be taken out of a default Ubuntu installation!!!!!!!!! (I don't know where to put this message, but here seems OK) The cup lib packages upgraded: cups-bsd_1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb cups-client_1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb cups-common_1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb & I installed many other packages.... http://paste.ubuntu.com/7878528/ When I did the above, I couldn't stop cups: sudo stop cups sudo stop cups-browsed # they both say they've stopped...................... sudo netstat -tapd #they're still running!!!! grrrrrrrrrrr Funny I had the same problem with 13.10 I'm running a Xubuntu 14.04 LiveUSB. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1349051/+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