cupsd: Child exited with status 2!

[Michael R. Head]

This is fixed in cups 1.2.8-0ubuntu6. See bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/92205

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:27 -0700, Rares Vernica wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After I did "atp-get upgrade" I get some error when starting cups.
> 
> I think apt logged the actions and it is trying to start cups every time 
> I run it:
> 
> avocado:~> sudo apt-get autoremove
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 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)
> avocado:~>
> 
> If I try to start it manually it also fails:
> 
> avocado:~> sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start
>   * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd 
>        cupsd: Child exited with status 2!
> avocado:~>
> 
> I checked the logs for cups and here is what it says:
> 
> avocado:~> tail -2 /var/log/cups/error_log
> X [14/Mar/2007:14:24:37 -0700] Unable to load MIME database from 
> '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups'!
> X [14/Mar/2007:14:25:13 -0700] Unable to load MIME database from 
> '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups'!
> avocado:~>
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Ray
> 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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