Problem solved (for me). This was an apparmor issue, and "sudo aa- complain cupsd" allowed me to work around it.
I had some disk space and filesystem constraints that forced me to symlink : /var/spool/ -> /alt_var/spool/ /var/cache/ -> /alt_var/cache/ And it seems that in this situation, apparmor prevented CUPS from accessing the files under /alt_var/... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1192475 Title: CUPS broken (client-error-request-value-too-long) since upgrade to Raring To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1192475/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs