Bug#823744: cups-common: after purge: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf not created

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

reassign 823744 cups-daemon
tags 823744 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks



Thank you for your report, Benoit.


On Sun 08 May 2016 at 13:32:43 +0200, Benoit Panizzon wrote:

> I was not able to modify any printers anymore. So somehow my config got broken
> and I was not able to figure out why.
> 
> Usual way to fix such a problem is to purge the package and config.
> 
> apt-get purge --auto-remove cups cups-common
> 
> (and then manualy removing /etc/cups/ as the post install script could not remove it because
> not empty)
> 
> and then: apt-get install cups
> 
> This results in a broken installation as /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is not created.
> 
> What could be the cause of the problem?

Pass! I have tried your sequence of commands a dozen times and on each
occasion cupsd.conf ended up in /etc/cups. Is the behaviour you observe
reproducible for you?

The cups-daemon package is responsible for copying cupsd.conf from the
cups directory in /usr/share (cupsd.conf.default). If it could not do so
we'd expect something in the logs or to appear onscreen. Does the command
'journalctl' indicate anything?

How do you go on with

  apt-get --reinstall install cups-daemon

after installing cups?

Regards,

Brian. (Not a maintainer).