The same thing happened to me right now. Any idea how to fix it? Reinstalling AppArmor, executing dpkg --configure -a, purge cups and install it again, nothing works. :/
-- 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/908594 Title: start: Job failed to start Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I had a system backup from 11.15.2011 which I had to restore. After that i ran apt update/ugrade some of the cups dependencies failed to install since the cups startup failed. Basically the log was like Setting up cups (1.5.0-8ubuntu6) ... start: Job failed to start invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing cups (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-driver-gutenprint: cups-driver-gutenprint depends on cups (>= 1.3.0); however: Package cups is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing cups-driver-gutenprint (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured In syslog I have init: cups pre-start process (6000) terminated with status 1 Whenever I try to startup cups. I think it happened when upgrading 1.5.0-8ubuntu4 -> 1.5.0-8ubuntu6 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: cups 1.5.0-8ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Dec 25 19:55:58 2011 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011) Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Connection refused MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D630 Papersize: letter PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.0.0-14-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg1-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 01/04/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A17 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA17:bd01/04/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD630:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude D630 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/908594/+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
