Bug#792473: cups: After updating to 2.0.3-6 in testing cups interface no longer works

[John Talbut <jt@dpets.co.uk>]

On 18/07/15 23:47, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sat 18 Jul 2015 at 22:46:24 +0100, John Talbut wrote:
>
> > I have tried running cupsd as root.  Iceweasel still can't establish
> > a connection to the server at localhost:631, but LibreOffice now
> > lists several printers however they do not relate to the printer
> > currently available on the network where I am.
> >
> > running netstat -tulpan | grep 631 as root gives me nothing.
>
> Hello John,
>
> An empty output for the netstat command would imply the cups daemon is
> not running. Which would imply something untoward if it happens after
> the machine has been rebooted. Does it?
>
> The status of cups can be confirmed with
>
>    systemctl status cups cups.socket cups.path cups-browsed
>
> Please post the output of this command.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
root@johnwtnc110:/home/john# systemctl status cups cups.socket cups.path 
cups-browsed
● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-07-19 07:44:32 BST; 41min ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
 Main PID: 1604 (cupsd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service
           └─1604 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l

Jul 19 07:44:32 johnwtnc110 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler.
Jul 19 07:44:32 johnwtnc110 systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler...

● cups.socket - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.socket; enabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-07-19 07:39:17 BST; 46min ago
   Listen: /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Stream)

Jul 19 07:39:17 johnwtnc110 systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler.
Jul 19 07:39:17 johnwtnc110 systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler.

● cups.path - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.path; disabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

● cups-browsed.service - Make remote CUPS printers available locally
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups-browsed.service; enabled; 
vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-07-19 07:39:18 BST; 46min ago
 Main PID: 769 (cups-browsed)
   CGroup: /system.slice/cups-browsed.service
           └─769 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed

Jul 19 07:39:18 johnwtnc110 systemd[1]: Started Make remote CUPS 
printers av....
Jul 19 07:39:18 johnwtnc110 systemd[1]: Starting Make remote CUPS 
printers a....
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

Regards

John