Cupsd errors when booting up into Ubuntu and when running Ubuntu

Bug #103594 reported by Dee
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cupsys (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20

I'm not sure whether I can duplicate these issues or not and they might be related to one another:

1) When I booted up into Ubuntu for the first time, there was some system error: "directory not found in root directory" or something like that. The text displayed might've also shown the message about a missing "var/run/cups/certs" directory. And Ubuntu might also have tried to recreate the missing directory as shown in the information below. Furthermore, there were also some lines about HP Printing and Cupsd.

E [05/Apr/2007:00:03:30 +0800] Creating missing directory "/var/run/cups/certs"
E [05/Apr/2007:00:24:45 +0800] Creating missing directory "/var/run/cups/certs"
E [05/Apr/2007:01:19:16 +0800] Creating missing directory "/var/run/cups/certs"
E [05/Apr/2007:15:23:27 +0800] Creating missing directory "/var/run/cups/certs"
E [05/Apr/2007:16:04:14 +0800] Creating missing directory "/var/run/cups/certs"
E [05/Apr/2007:16:14:01 +0800] Creating missing directory "/var/run/cups/certs"

The error never occurred again, however, I would find certain references within System log.

2) The following error has occurred at least twice. This ALWAYS happens when I'm carrying out a task on the computer and it definitely does not occur by itself as I left the pc on for about 8 hours when I went to sleep and to do other tasks. When I came back to the pc, Ubuntu was in working condition(no crashes, freezes, etc., etc.)

I can't say for sure I remember what applications I was running and what tasks I was performing during all those times when this error occurred. However, on one particular occasion, I was downloading Koffice. Before the download could finish, Ubuntu crashed and I got the following error. This time, I'd a digicam ready and I was able to snap an image. This is the clearest shot I could take(the others were eh, too blurry):

http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errors1qh5.jpg

I don't think I've any other logs to provide as the error last occurred more than 12 hours ago. However, what I did was to disable Printer service(cupsys) and Printer service(hplip) from System---> Administration----> Services. Since then, the errors have not occurred.

The applications which I were running while this crash occurred while downloading Koffice were:

a) Thunderbird
b) Firefox
c) Terminal
d) Synaptic manager
e) Text editor
f) Konqueror
g) Skype

More information posted below: Please read!!!!

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Dee (dee24) wrote :

Oh, and I also tried to look for any other error logs by searching for hidden files and folders within File System. Unfortunately, there were none. What I did was to search for any files that contained the term "cups" or for any files named "cups", and that would likely contain some error messages.

And I also looked at the date they were last modified. Anything modified before 5th April 2007 couldn't be used as Feisty was installed on 5th April.

I also looked for any and all files that contained the term "/var/run/cups/certs". Also, no results.

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Dee (dee24) wrote :

Oh and one last thing:

I have a Canon MP130 Printer. However, the printer was NOT on when I installed Feisty nor has it been turned on ever since I started to run Feisty on this machine.

Dee (dee24)
description: updated
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Dee (dee24) wrote :

Well, I accidentally turned on the printer and the result wasn't anything fun but another issue.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

Changed in cupsys:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in cupsys:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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