On 09/03/2013 05:44 PM, Ivar Mossin wrote: > Thank you Peter for posting this bug. I've spent two evenings tracking > this. > > I was on to the same thing, saw the same errors, but it never occured to > me that the symlink would be an obstacle. As you, I had made a symlink > from /usr/share to /home/share on an old Eee PC 901 running Lubuntu > 12.10 with severly limited primary partition. It's just not possible to > fit /usr/share onto the root partition. The solution, brought by you, > was to remove the symlink, create a folder /usr/share and symlink every > subfolder to /home/share, except cups, and as I found out, also ppd. Now > the printing works a charm, also http://localhost:631. > > -Ivar! >
Ivar Thanks for following up on this! Baffled me for a while and thought this deserved a wider audience. Once I figured this problem, I was able to "work around" it, and am now back in printing business, but is it an established fact that this is a CUPS bug? And if so, shouldn't it be sent upstream to "apple" (cups.org) ?? I should also add that during experimenting I had one time where I thought it should have failed, it worked, or the other way around. As if that symlink was allowed to be a level down, but not at the top level of it's chain.... kinda weird, I'm not clear in my head how exactly it was. Don't know how much you tried on this, but I'm happy to try and recreate this oddity. peter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215733 Title: cups config files cannot deal with symlinks and/or other filesystems To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1215733/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs