cupsd: Child exited with status 2!

[Rares Vernica]

Michael R. Head wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>

Thanks a lot,
Ray