[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#588643: cupsd fails at launch with symbol lookup error

[Norman Ramsey]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1+lenny8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I'm maintaining a lenny system, and during the normal upgrade process,
something went very wrong with CUPS.  The daemon won't launch:

  : nr at homedog 10073 ; sudo /etc/init.d/cups start
  Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd/usr/sbin/cupsd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/cupsd: undefined symbol: _httpReadGNUTLS
   failed!

I'm not able to identify exactly what the problem is or where things
went wrong.

N.B. reportbug claims my installation of cups is awry:

  There may be a problem with your installation of cups;
  the following files appear to be missing or changed:
  debsums: can't open cups file /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/ipp (Permission denied)
  debsums: can't open cups file /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/lpd (Permission denied)
  debsums: can't open cups file /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/serial (Permission denied)

I would prefer to stick with stable but I will try a more recent
release.  I have to assume some kind of security upgrade is
responsible for this problem?  I don't know...


Norman



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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+lenny8           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           2.11.2-2                 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2        1.4.4-1                  Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2   1.3.8-1+lenny8           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3     1.2.1-5+lenny1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26     2.8.6-1                  the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 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    5.10.1-13                Core Perl modules
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert        1.0.23                   simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  xpdf-utils [pop 3.02-1.4+lenny2          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils           0.6.23-3lenny1     Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cups-client           1.3.8-1+lenny8     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient             2:3.2.5-4lenny12   a LanManager-like simple client fo

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.3.8-1+lenny8   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
pn  hplip                   <none>           (no description available)
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