Package: cupsys Version: 1.3.5-1 Severity: important When I enabled printer sharing, cups failed to restart. It wouldn't print out any error messages or log anything to its own file, but it did log this to syslog:
tycho cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting! I examined cupsd.conf and found that it contained the following line containing non-ascii characters: 000000d0 73 20 40 4c 4f 43 41 4c 0a 44 65 66 61 75 6c 74 |s @LOCAL.Default| 000000e0 41 75 74 68 54 79 70 65 20 90 ec 05 08 63 0a 3c |AuthType ....c.<| 000000f0 4c 6f 63 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 2f 3e 0a 20 20 41 6c |Location />. Al| Removing the DefaultAuthType line brought the server back to life. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (520, 'testing'), (510, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc8-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cupsys depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii cupsys-common 1.3.5-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.18 Debian configuration management sy ii ghostscript [gs-esp] 8.61.dfsg.1-1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libavahi-compat-libdn 0.6.22-2 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcupsimage2 1.3.5-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsys2 1.3.5-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgnutls13 2.0.4-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.23 library for handling paper charact ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.1 OpenSLP libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii perl-modules 5.8.8-12 Core Perl modules ii poppler-utils [xpdf-u 0.6.2-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.7-5 /proc file system utilities ii ssl-cert 1.0.14 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl Versions of packages cupsys recommends: ii avahi-utils 0.6.22-2 Avahi browsing, publishing and dis ii cupsys-client 1.3.5-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support ii smbclient 3.0.28-2 a LanManager-like simple client fo -- debconf information: * cupsys/raw-print: true * cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]