[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#496317: cups-pdf: only works for root

[Jasen Betts]

Package: cups-pdf
Version: 2.4.8-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


the cups-pdf printer driver only works for root.

when invoked by a user it produces no output in the ~/PDF
directory

as a regular user:
$ lpr mozilla.ps
$ ls -al ~/PDF
total 24
drwx------   2 jasen jasen  4096 2008-08-22 23:50 .
drwxrwxr-x 141 jasen jasen 20480 2008-08-25 00:06 ..
 
#cat  /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log
Mon Aug 25 00:10:31 2008  [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non fatal) (/home/jasen/PDF/mozilla.pdf)

but the same ps file converts fine if printed by root.

# mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sdb2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
ii  cups                       1.3.8-1       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-client                1.3.8-1       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  ghostscript                8.62.dfsg.1-3 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libc6                      2.7-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpaper-utils             1.1.23+nmu1   library for handling paper charact

cups-pdf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests:
pn  system-config-printer-gnome | <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information