Bug#319093: cupsys: printers sometimes stop working after upgrade (ppds not refreshed)
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-10
Severity: normal
For a few times, on different machines, working with debian sarge when
it was testing and when it recently matured to stable, I observed the
following situations:
- I have configured, working printer (managed by cups)
- after some apt-get update printing just stops to work
(I analysed it deeper once, it finished to be problem with
incorrect filters configured)
- simple walk through CUPS web interface 'configure printer'
option (accepting defaults hinted according to the previous config)
causes printing to work again
I am not sure what exactly is happening here but it seems to me that
some printer characteristics or filter selections are updated when I
re-configure the printer.
I do not know whether it is possible to solve this problem completely
(it would of course be nice if necessary updates happened when
packages are updated). I am also unable to specify exact version
numbers for all the situations (version specified here respond to the
system on which I just performed 'walk' to restore printing but I do
not remember when exactly it stopped working, it was no more than 3
months ago but thats all what I remember). Therefore I do not expect
this bug to be formally 'solved'. I file it because I think that
somebody who knows cups internals better than me can imagine how the
current upgrade process can be improved.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.64 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.51 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13.1 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-2 OpenSLP libraries
ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.7-3 Core Perl modules
ii xpdf-utils 3.00-13 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii gs-esp 7.07.1-9 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii smbclient 3.0.14a-3 a LanManager-like simple client fo
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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