[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#376499: cupsys: Cancelling configuration of package leaves CUPS inoperable

[Sam Morris]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-3
Severity: important

If I press cancel while the package's debconf configuration is running
(or interrupt the invocation of dpkg-reconfigure with ctrl+c) then CUPS
is left in a rather bad state.

First, the server isn't running. Second, there are no symlinks in
/usr/lib/cupsys/backend. This means that when I start the server and
print something, cupsys proceeds to chew 100% of my CPU, while spamming
the following message to error_log hundreds of times per second:

E [03/Jul/2006:12:01:31 +0100] PID 27922 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!
E [03/Jul/2006:12:01:31 +0100] PID 27923 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!
E [03/Jul/2006:12:01:31 +0100] PID 27924 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!
E [03/Jul/2006:12:01:31 +0100] PID 27925 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!
E [03/Jul/2006:12:01:31 +0100] PID 27926 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!
E [03/Jul/2006:12:01:31 +0100] PID 27927 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!
E [03/Jul/2006:12:01:31 +0100] PID 27928 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!

Reconfiguring cupsys again and completing the process restores cupsys to
a working condition.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.87            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.2           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libacl1                  2.2.37-1        Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-15        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.1-3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.1-3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.62-4          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.4.0-2         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13+b1    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.19          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-10          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-6         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2.2     /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-8          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.2.1-3          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.22-1         a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: false
* cupsys/ports: 631
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
  cupsys/portserror:
* cupsys/browse: true