I experience this in 12.04 LTS and it is associated with boot failures. I periodically get (currently unresolved) boot failures. After a failure I have to restore printers.conf from .O version.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583172 Title: cups lose configuration Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: cups cups 1.4.3-1 ubuntu 10.04 Hi everyone: my cups randomly lose any printer I have added. I configure my printer, I can print, but after shutdown, when I restart there isn't any printer in my system/printer I can see /etc/cups/ppd and there are all my ppd printer drivers, but the file /etc/cups/printers.conf is empty I reconfigure the printer, newly I can print, but after shutdown, randomly my system printer is newly empty... The bug seems to be correct only if I copy the /etc/cups/printers.conf from another pc... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/583172/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
