[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#563566: cupsd.conf is missing

[Neil Watson]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1+lenny7
Severity: normal

While debugging a loss of USB printer communication I purged cups and
reinstalled.
dpkg --purge cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client
rm -rf /etc/cups
apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client

Now cups fails to start:
ettin:/etc# /etc/init.d/cups start
Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
Message from syslogd at ettin at Jan  3 14:23:36 ...
 cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' -
 exiting!
 cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
  failed!

find: `/etc/cups': No such file or directory

/etc has space
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg-root   9.9G  4.1G  5.3G  44% /

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.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  cups-common     1.3.8-1+lenny7           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript     8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat 0.6.23-3lenny1           Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6           2.7-18                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2        1.3.8-1+lenny7           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2   1.3.8-1+lenny7           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3     1.2.1-5+lenny1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26     2.4.2-6+lenny2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1+lenny1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1       1.1.23+nmu1              library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1         1.2.1-7.5                OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules    5.10.0-19lenny2          Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [ 0.8.7-3                  PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert        1.0.23                   simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils           0.6.23-3lenny1     Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cups-client           1.3.8-1+lenny7     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient             2:3.2.5-4lenny7    a LanManager-like simple client fo

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.3.8-1+lenny7   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint  <none>           (no description available)
pn  cups-pdf                <none>           (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db             20080211-2+nmu1  OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                   2.8.6.b-4        HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

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