Ubuntu
cups package

  1. Bug #295536
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 295536

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Eric L. (ericl) wrote :

I'm pretty sure that it's not a bug in cups-pdf but a bug in the AppArmor configuration for cups-pdf.

Workaround (and proof that it's an AppArmor configuration issue):

open the file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd

and edit the line:
    /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf {
in order to get:
    /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf flags=(complain) {

restart AppArmor with 'sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor restart'

CUPS-PDF works again, QED!

As far as I understand it, the workaround removes the protection around cups-pdf, someone with more knowledge can probably fix the config file in a more sensitive manner.

As the file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd comes with the 'cups' package, this bug should be reassigned.

Hope this helps, Eric