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I'm having a terrible time with CUPS. I've read every thread about this issue that I can find and none seem to help in the slightest.
ely@zaffpants:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
ely@zaffpants:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgpg-error-dev comerr-dev libkrb5-dev libgssrpc4 libtasn1-3-dev
libgcrypt11-dev libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 libgnutls-dev
krb5-multidev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
ely@zaffpants:~$ sudo apt-get purge cups
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgpg-error-dev comerr-dev libkrb5-dev libgssrpc4 libtasn1-3-dev
libgcrypt11-dev libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 libgnutls-dev
krb5-multidev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cups* cups-driver-gutenprint*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9,331 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 366943 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing cups-driver-gutenprint ...
reload: Not running
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "force-reload" failed.
Purging configuration files for cups-driver-gutenprint ...
Removing cups ...
Purging configuration files for cups ...
dpkg: warning: while removing cups, directory '/etc/cups/ssl' not empty so not removed.
dpkg: warning: while removing cups, directory '/etc/cups' not empty so not removed.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 removed doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
ely@zaffpants:~$ sudo rm -rf /etc/cups
ely@zaffpants:~$
ely@zaffpants:~$ sudo apt-get install cups
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgpg-error-dev comerr-dev libkrb5-dev libgssrpc4 libtasn1-3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7
libkdb5-4 libgnutls-dev krb5-multidev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
cups-driver-gutenprint
Suggested packages:
cups-bsd hplip cups-pdf gutenprint-doc gutenprint-locales
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cups cups-driver-gutenprint
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,411 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,331 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package cups.
(Reading database ... 365981 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cups (from .../cups_1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cups-driver-gutenprint.
Unpacking cups-driver-gutenprint (from .../cups-driver-gutenprint_5.2.6-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up cups (1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2) ...
At this point, it just hangs. I can't kill the process, I can only manually close the terminal or restart the machine. If I open Synaptic and do all of this through Synaptic, I get the exact same hang error at exactly the same place.
Any ideas? I really am at my wit's end here.
ely
Posted 2011-07-05T18:03:26.243
Reputation: 182