Martin,
It still fails and so do other things now. The problem is that cups has
been converted to an upstart job and using invoke-rc.d fails.
Here is the output:
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package cups.
(Reading database ... 184112 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cups (from .../cups_1.4.6-5ubuntu1.3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cups-driver-gutenprint.
Unpacking cups-driver-gutenprint
(from .../cups-driver-gutenprint_5.2.6-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
Setting up cups (1.4.6-5ubuntu1.3) ...
start: Job is already running: cups
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing cups (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
cups-driver-gutenprint:
cups-driver-gutenprint depends on cups (>= 1.3.0); however:
Package cups is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cups-driver-gutenprint (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a
follow-up error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
cups
cups-driver-gutenprint
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Keith
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 07:53 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> If that is really the complete output, then we need something different
> here, as apt does not actually reinstall cups, but just tries to
> configure it again. Can you please try
>
> sudo apt-get remove cups
> sudo apt-get install cups
>
> and copy&paste the complete output here?
>
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