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
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i've had this with various 12.04 installations for months, i assumed it
was apt upgrades breaking cupsd as there's always a backup .0 file, its
not boot failures for me.
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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.
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I'm also experiencing this bug on 12.04 with all updates through Dec 11,
2012.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583172
Title:
cups lose configuration
To manage notifications about
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Title:
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I have seen this a couple of times myself, most recently with 12.04 LTS.
In my case, there was a /etc/cups/printers.conf.O left behind that had
the old configuration. I stopped cups, copied it to
/etc/cups/printers.conf and then started cups and it all worked again.
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Hello, Robert.
I wonder what was the solution found to solve the problem with CUPS .. I use
ubuntu 10.04 on my workstation and got the same problem with CUPS.
Thank you, hug, Fabiocs
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I see the same problem on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS with CUPS version
1.4.3-1ubuntu1.3.
After a reboot a new and empty /etc/cups/printers.conf is created.
As workaround I stop CUPS, copy a backup printers.conf to /etc/cups/ and
start CUPS again.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: cups
Roberto, I am not sure I understand your last sentence correctly. Does a
printers.conf from a different computer solve the problem? If so, could
you look for the differences between the kept printers.conf and a
printers.conf created by CUPS on the machine which is lost after
shutdown? (You can use
