Experienced this on Debian 7.7. Not related to apt as the package was not being updated around this time. printers.conf was wiped on restart.
** Also affects: cups (Debian) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded 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 Status in cups package in Debian: New 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/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp