Re: cups problem, no response from cups

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

gene heskett wrote: 
> 1. The default non-driver for my Brother MFC-J6920DW goes thru the 
> motions of being deleted after sudo'ing, but the deletion is then causing 
> a cups restart, and that apparently restores this non-functional 
> configuration, making 3 configs.  And the no-driver version cannot be 
> deleted.
> 
> I have 2 other brother driver profiles using brothers driver that do 
> work, but in addition to that one I also have a b&w laser, which also 
> shows up twice in the printers list, but:
> 
> 2. none of these profiles remember the choices made for how its supposed 
> to handle the instant job, you have to go through the whole menu of 
> options for every job you send to hard copy.
> 
> Telling it to do all jobs sent to that profile in duplex, landscape, and 
> long edge binding in the profile doesn't work, but has to be done in the 
> printer requester (kde5?), per job.  All this worked perfectly in 
> stretch, using TDE, not KDE and I'd save a whole forest if I could 
> restore that function in bullseye.

This set of symptoms suggests to me that cups has an ownership
or permissions problem in the directory that it is trying to
save settings.

Can you show us

ls -al /etc/cups

and

ps auwx|grep cups

please?