Woah... this is weird. I have a Jaunty (9.04) machine. I tried upgrading it to Karmic (9.10), and I got THIS in the middle of my upgrade:
Setting up cups-pdf (2.5.0-4) ... * Reloading Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [fail] Password for root on localhost? Wow... an interactive password prompt during "apt-get dist-upgrade"!! Sounds like a closely related issue. Alan -- cups asks for root password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387970 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs