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cupsys package

cups upgrade errors out (feisty)

Bug #92282 reported by ybkosher on 2007-03-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #92205: Error on cupsys update. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cupsys (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cupsys

I have upgraded from edgy to feisty and, after that, I just did an apt-get upgrade today. The install of the cupsys package fails:

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

Here is /var/log/cups/error_log (multiple lines because of multiple attempts to fix myself):
X [14/Mar/2007:12:23:34 -0400] Unable to load MIME database from '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups'!
X [14/Mar/2007:12:24:53 -0400] Unable to load MIME database from '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups'!
X [14/Mar/2007:12:29:16 -0400] Unable to load MIME database from '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups'!
X [14/Mar/2007:12:51:55 -0400] Unable to load MIME database from '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups'!

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Alex Zvoleff (azvoleff) wrote on 2007-03-14:

I get the same here.

Setting up cupsys (1.2.8-0ubuntu5) ...
Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: 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

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aus (aus.) wrote on 2007-03-14:

After I reported the same bug, I saw it was already reported (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/92283)

I fixed the problem by creating the directory /usr/share/cups/mime/ and copying /etc/cups/mime.* to /usr/share/cups/mime/.
The problem seems to be related to a fix for bug LP#36532 with 98_search_mime_files_in_usr_share.dpatch.
(http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.8-0ubuntu5/changelog)