Hi Till, can you give this another look? What is cups doing with smb here? Does it make more sense to give write access to this entire directory as Stefan suggests or just to the specific /var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb that was in the original report?
Thanks ** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314160 Title: Apparmor profile violated: cupsd does mknod on /var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb Status in cups package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When I print to my smb printer, I get a dbus notification of the following entries in my syslog: Apr 29 12:27:15 tinker kernel: [ 3359.467314] type=1400 audit(1398770835.923:150): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name="/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb" pid=5747 comm="smb" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=7 ouid=7 Apr 29 12:27:15 tinker kernel: [ 3359.467453] type=1400 audit(1398770835.923:151): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name="/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb" pid=5747 comm="smb" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=7 ouid=7 Apr 29 12:27:15 tinker kernel: [ 3359.469047] type=1400 audit(1398770835.923:152): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name="/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb" pid=5747 comm="smb" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=7 ouid=7 I get new entries every time I print. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with cups-daemon 1.7.2-0ubuntu1 on btrfs, fwiw. I saw this replicated on http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu- trusty-tahr-laptop-ultrabook.html . To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1314160/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp