[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#539156: Bug#539156: Bug#539156: cups-pdf: requires user interaction on installation

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Ronny Standtke<ronny.standtke at fhnw.ch> wrote:
>> Does CUPS-PDF 2.5.0-7 solves this issue for you?
>
> CUPS-PDF 2.5.0-7 is not in squeeze, only in sid. Therefore you can
> reproduce the problem by executing the following two commands (as root
> in a new empty directory):
>
> # lh_config --distribution sid --packages "cups-pdf"
> # lh_build
>
> Unfortunately, the issue is still there. Here is the output I see on the
> terminal:
> ------------
> Setting up cups-pdf (2.5.0-7) ...
> All runlevel operations denied by policy
> Password for root on localhost?
> ------------
>
> Then lh_build is stuck because cups-pdf is blocking, waiting for user
> input.

Something tells me that it might be related to this recent bug #544137
against CUPS itself and, sure enough, what's asking for a password, in
your case, is lpadmin, which is provided by cups-client, from the CUPS
source package.

Martin-Éric