Bug#742668: cups: Fails to install because can't listen to sockets
Package: cups
Version: 1.7.1-10
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Upgrading system
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
apt-get -u dist-upgrade
* What was the outcome of this action?
New cups version can't be installed, cups service no more running
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Working cups service
by upgrading Debian/testing this day I get the following error:
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Setting up cups-daemon (1.7.1-10) ...
A dependency job for cups.service failed. See 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed.
configured to not write apport reports
configured to not write apport reports
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg: error processing package cups-daemon (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-core-drivers:
cups-core-drivers depends on cups-daemon (>= 1.7.1-10); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-core-drivers (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups:
cups depends on cups-core-drivers (>= 1.7.1-10); however:
Package cups-core-drivers is not configured yet.
cups depends on cups-daemon (>= 1.7.1-10); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
cups-daemon
cups-core-drivers
cups
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
journalctl -xn shows:
Mar 26 05:10:16 g6 systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service Sockets.
-- Subject: Unit cups.socket has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit cups.socket has begun starting up.
Mar 26 05:10:16 g6 systemd[1]: cups.socket failed to listen on sockets: Address
already in use
Mar 26 05:10:16 g6 systemd[1]: Failed to listen on CUPS Printing Service
Sockets.
-- Subject: Unit cups.socket has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02cf6855d2428ba40df7e9d022f0
3d
--
-- Unit cups.socket has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Mar 26 05:10:16 g6 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for CUPS Printing Service.
-- Subject: Unit cups.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02cf6855d2428ba40df7e9d022f0
3d
--
-- Unit cups.service has failed.
--
-- The result is dependency.
Cups can't listen to default sockets (ports) but no other process is listening
there. I guess this is a bug.
Because of this, cups is no more working.
Thanks for your efforts,
Adrian Immanuel KIESS
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii cups-client 1.7.1-10
ii cups-common 1.7.1-10
iu cups-core-drivers 1.7.1-10
ih cups-daemon 1.7.1-10
ii cups-filters 1.0.47-2
ii cups-ppdc 1.7.1-10
ii cups-server-common 1.7.1-10
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52
ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-8+b1
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-4
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-4
ii libc-bin 2.18-4
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libcups2 1.7.1-10
ii libcupscgi1 1.7.1-10
ii libcupsimage2 1.7.1-10
ii libcupsmime1 1.7.1-10
ii libcupsppdc1 1.7.1-10
ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-16
ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-16
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.17-1+b1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian12
ii poppler-utils 0.22.5-4
ii procps 1:3.3.9-2
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-4
ii colord 1.0.6-1
ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.0.47-2
ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.9-1
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.7.1-10
ii cups-pdf 2.6.1-9
ii foomatic-db 20140218-1
pn hplip <none>
ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.14.1-1
pn smbclient <none>
ii udev 204-8
-- debconf information:
cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
cupsys/raw-print: true
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