Hi,

I have seen some posts which say to execute (as root):

chattr -i /etc/cups/printers.conf

after commenting out the password line, to stop the automatic cups
authentication from incorrectly changing it (due to some other cups
authentication problem). If you have in fact done that at some time, you
will get:

lsattr /etc/cups/printers.conf
----i-------------- /etc/cups/printers.conf

If you have the i flag set, the file cannot be deleted - even by root.
To fix it, execute:

chattr -i /etc/cups/printers.conf

You should then get:

lsattr /etc/cups/printers.conf
------------------- /etc/cups/printers.conf

HTH
Andrew

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package cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess 
post-installation script returned error exit status 1 - chown: changing 
ownership of `/etc/cups/printers.conf': Operation not permitted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532053
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