Indeed. That solution works for me too. Thanks DBooth for your research and the given hint.
Regards. Dietmar Engelberth Am 02.12.25 um 18:03 schrieb DBooth: > On Ubuntu 20.04 this problem also recently appeared for me. These 4 > erroneous lines were at the end of the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file, after > a closing </Policy>" line: > > JobPrivateAccess default > JobPrivateValues default > SubscriptionPrivateAccess default > SubscriptionPrivateValues default > > Deleting these 4 lines fixed the problem. I do not know how long they > have been there. Since both of the remaining <Policy> sections already > contained those 4 directive, I reasoned that deleting these erroneous 4 > lines would be harmless. It works for me now. The cups parsing check > no longer reports a syntax error: > > # cupsd -t > "/etc/cups/cups-files.conf" is OK. > "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" is OK. > > Restarting and checking the status now works fine: > > # systemctl restart cups > root@dbooth-t470p:/home/dbooth# service cups status > * cups.service - CUPS Scheduler > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor > preset: > > Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-12-02 11:49:47 EST; 9s ago > TriggeredBy: * cups.path > * cups.socket > Docs: man:cupsd(8) > Main PID: 11301 (cupsd) > Tasks: 2 (limit: 38081) > Memory: 6.3M > CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service > `-11301 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l > > Dec 02 11:49:47 dbooth-t470p systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler. > -- de _________________ Herrnstraße 3 57627 Hachenburg +49 178 6 777 861 +49 2662 94 54 77 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2133207 Title: cups security update causes issues with invalid config file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cups/+bug/2133207/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
