Cupsys failed to install correctly

Bug #92410 reported by martbd
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #92205: Error on cupsys update. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: cupsys

martbd@martbd-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cupsys cupsys-common
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2546kB of archives. After unpacking 713kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 178736 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cupsys-common 1.2.7-4 (using .../cupsys-common_1.2.8-0ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cupsys-common ...
Preparing to replace cupsys 1.2.7-4 (using .../cupsys_1.2.8-0ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
 * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ]
Unpacking replacement cupsys ...
Setting up cupsys-common (1.2.8-0ubuntu5) ...
Setting up cupsys (1.2.8-0ubuntu5) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/cupsys ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/logrotate.d/cupsys ...
 * 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)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
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
martbd@martbd-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 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.
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)
martbd@martbd-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 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.
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)
Now my printer won't work

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 15 12:59:08 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux martbd-desktop 2.6.20-10-generic #2 SMP Mon Mar 12 00:02:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

martbd (martbd)
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