Confirmed. This is an old bug from at least Intrepid, possibly Hardy. It's still present on Jaunty:
Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] switching to new gid (lpadmin) Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] initialization finished (v2.5.0) Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] user identified (ward) Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] output directory name generated (/home/ward/PDF) Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] user information prepared Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] spoolfile name created (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27444) Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] source stream ready Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] destination stream ready (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27444) Mon Apr 27 21:07:41 2009 [DEBUG] owner set for spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27444) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] found beginning of postscript code (%!PS-Adobe-3.0) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] now extracting postscript code Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] found title in ps code (([ubuntu] [SOLVED] apparmor cupspdf in Hardy [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums)) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] found end of postscript code (%%EOF) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] all data written to spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27444) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] trying to use PS title (([ubuntu] [SOLVED] apparmor cupspdf in Hardy [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums)) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] removing trailing newlines from title (([ubuntu] [SOLVED] apparmor cupspdf in Hardy [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums)) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] removing enclosing parentheses () from full title (([ubuntu] [SOLVED] apparmor cupspdf in Hardy [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums)) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] removing special characters from title ([ubuntu] [SOLVED] apparmor cupspdf in Hardy [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] truncating title (_ubuntu___SOLVED__apparmor_cupspdf_in_Hardy__Archive__-_Ubuntu_F) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] title successfully retrieved (job_637-_ubuntu___SOLVED__apparmor_cupspdf_in_Hardy__Archive__-_Ubuntu_F) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] input data read from stdin Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] output filename created (/home/ward/PDF/job_637-_ubuntu___SOLVED__apparmor_cupspdf_in_Hardy__Archive__-_Ubuntu_F.pdf) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] ghostscript commandline built (/usr/bin/gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="/home/ward/PDF/job_637-_ubuntu___SOLVED__apparmor_cupspdf_in_Hardy__Archive__-_Ubuntu_F.pdf" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27444) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] output file unlinked (/home/ward/PDF/job_637-_ubuntu___SOLVED__apparmor_cupspdf_in_Hardy__Archive__-_Ubuntu_F.pdf) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] TMPDIR set for GhostScript (/var/tmp) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] entering child process Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] GID set for current user Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] UID set for current user (ward) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] ghostscript has finished (256) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] no postprocessing Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] waiting for child to exit Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] spoolfile unlinked (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27444) Mon Apr 27 21:07:42 2009 [DEBUG] all memory has been freed Note that ghostscript error code. The only option I've found so far is disabling apparmor entirely for cupsd. -- apparmor prevent cups-pdf to create ~/PDF folder https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270046 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
