[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#534805: cups: permission problem with ppds.dat

Richard Scherping richard at scherping.de
Sat Jun 27 11:10:36 UTC 2009


Package: cups
Version: 1.3.10-2
Severity: important


I got

merom:/home/richard# tail -1 /var/log/cups/error_log
E [27/Jun/2009:12:54:21 +0200] [cups-driverd] Unable to write
"/var/cache/cups/ppds.dat" - Permission denied

after installing ghostscript-cups (printing was broken with missing
pdftoraster before that).

chmod g+rw /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat

fixed that, but why is it necessary to do this by hand?

Richard

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser              3.110               add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                   1.06.94-3.1         The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-common          1.3.10-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.26              Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript          8.64~dfsg-12        The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libd 0.6.25-1            Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                2.9-12              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2             1.3.10-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2        1.3.10-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.12-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1              1:4.4.0-5           GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26          2.6.6-1             the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2     1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35          0.35-7              IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3            1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.11-1            OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g             1.0.1-9             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1            1.1.23+nmu1         library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler4          0.10.6-1            PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1              1.2.1-7.5           OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6           4.4.0-5             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base             3.2-22              Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules         5.10.0-23           Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf- 0.10.6-1            PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps               1:3.2.8-1           /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert             1.0.23              simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont         20080323-3          Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils               0.6.25-1       Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cups-client               1.3.10-2       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint    5.2.3-3        printer drivers for CUPS
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient                 2:3.3.4-1      command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd               1.3.10-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-pdf               <none>            (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db            20090508-1        OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine     4.0-20090509-1+b1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                  3.9.4b-1          HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-jap <none>            (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
  cupsys/raw-print: true





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