[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#641687: cups: Failed to automaticly configure a printer when no color manager is available

[Remi Vanicat]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.0-5
Severity: normal

Hello,

When trying to configure a new network printer on my laptop, it failed
with some cryptic error (failed to connect). Looking at the log, one
find:

   failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut:Activation of org.freedesktop.ColorManager timed out

Installing a colord server solve the problem.

Maybe the level of the dependency should be changed, or cups should
continue without the color manager when there is none.

At least some documentation about this should be added to the
NEWS.Debian.

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113           
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2+b1    
ii  cups-client            1.5.0-5         
ii  cups-common            1.5.0-5         
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.0-5         
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41          
ii  ghostscript            9.02~dfsg-3     
ii  libacl1                2.2.51-3        
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.30-5        
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.30-5        
ii  libc6                  2.13-18         
ii  libcups2               1.5.0-5         
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.0-5         
ii  libcupsdriver1         1.5.0-5         
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.0-5         
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.0-5         
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.0-5         
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.14-1        
ii  libgcc1                1:4.6.1-9       
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.10-1       
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.9.1+dfsg-2    
ii  libijs-0.35            0.35-8          
ii  libkrb5-3              1.9.1+dfsg-2    
ii  liblcms1               1.19.dfsg-1     
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.25-3        
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-2         
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu1     
ii  libpoppler13           0.16.7-2        
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-7.8       
ii  libstdc++6             4.6.1-9         
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-19     
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28          
ii  poppler-utils          0.16.7-2        
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-11      
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.28          
ii  ttf-freefont           20100919-1      
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon            0.6.30-5   
ii  colord                  0.1.11-1   
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint  5.2.7-2    
ii  foomatic-filters        4.0.9-1    
ii  ghostscript-cups        9.02~dfsg-3

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd     1.5.0-5        
ii  cups-pdf     2.5.1-4        
ii  foomatic-db  20110803-3     
ii  hplip        <none>         
ii  smbclient    2:3.5.11~dfsg-1
ii  udev         172-1          

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf [Errno 13] Permission non accordée: u'/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'

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

-- 
Rémi Vanicat