CUPS update (March 14) fails to install

Binary package hint: cupsys

Feisty Fawn.

March 14, 10:49 AM

CUPSYS update breaks cupsys.

terminal output:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall cupsys
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up cupsys (1.2.8-0ubuntu5) ...
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd cupsd: Child exited with status 2!
invoke-rc.d: initscript cupsys, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing cupsys (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cupsys
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

forum link: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2297087#post2297087

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 14 10:47:07 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux oskar3 2.6.20-10-generic #2 SMP Mon Mar 12 00:02:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux