[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#631025: cups: printer always deactivated after CUPS upgrade

[Paul Menzel]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2012, 15:33 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 20:38 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> 
> […]
> 
> > I believe after every CUPS upgrade my printer is deactivated and I have
> > to activate it again (using the GNOME printer dialog, the checkbox
> > before »Activated« (German »Aktivieren«) is not set). I am not a 100 %
> > sure because I do not always print something after every upgrade but it
> > happens since over a year and I expect the upgrades are at fault.
> > 
> > Is that a known problem? Please tell me what other information you need
> > for solving this issue.
> 
> users on my system still experience this problem. It is very annoying
> because normal users are not allowed to start and stop printers and
> therefore cannot fix that problem by themselves.

[…]

> I also looked through `/var/log/cups/` and could not find any messages
> logging that the printer was stopped.

Thanks to Till in #openprinting on freenode.net I now know that the
state is saved in `printers.conf`.

        $ ls -l /etc/cups/printers.conf*
        -rw------- 1 root lp 1546 Mai 28 01:23 /etc/cups/printers.conf
        -rw------- 1 root lp 1546 Mai 26 12:53 /etc/cups/printers.conf.O
        $ sudo diff -u /etc/cups/printers.conf*

According to `man printers.conf` this file is automatically created by
cupsd every time a printer is added or removed. In this case
`printers.conf` was created when I turned on the printer and
`printers.conf.0` when I used `gnome-control-center` to activate the
printer again.

I will monitor these files and hopefully get some clues what triggers
this problem.


Thanks,

Paul
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