The bug seems to be marked as fixed, but I just booted from ubuntu-6.06-desktop-i386.iso (release), and I got the same.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache# chmod a+rw -R /var/cache/cups [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache# /etc/init.d/cupsys restart * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ ok ] Then pressing "OK" and apply everywhere (reasonable defaults come up for my PSC 2175), gnome-cups-add prints as last line: ** (gnome-cups-add:9563): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280 In /var/log/cups/error_log I get: E [04/Jun/2006:17:00:34 +0000] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized This is with the released CD, as far as I can tell: o# dd if=/dev/hdd bs=1 count=731744256|md5sum e2e5e0bfb2edffd2ce02dd77bda4558e - (/dev/hdd contains the CD I just booted up from) -- cannot write /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat https://launchpad.net/bugs/40795 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs