This gives the impression that your /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat was broken. Perhaps one should suggest to CUPS developers that this file gets somehow checked on CUPS startup.
Another thing which CUPS developers could make better is the way the web interface builds its lists. It seems that it calls the process of listing the available PPDs (cups-driverd list) twice, once for the manufacturers and once for the model. Would be better if it buffers the output of the first call and re-uses it for the models. This would make the web interface only need half the time. Also some kind of "Please wait" screen in the web interface during printer detection, model list building, and PPD generation would be nice. I suggest you to post feature requests on CUPS for these things, via http://www.cups.org/str.php -- the foomatic packages are too old to allow for auto configuration for cupsys https://launchpad.net/bugs/55685 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
