[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Pavageau) writes: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:41:09PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> > Setting up cupsys-driver-gutenprint (4.3.99+cvs20050901-1) ... >> > cups-genppd: Unable to create file >> > "/usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.0/en/stp-bjc-30.5.0.ppd.gz" - No such >> > file or directory. >> > can't close cups-genppd pipe: at /usr/sbin/cups-genppdconfig.5.0 line 414. >> > dpkg: error processing cupsys-driver-gutenprint (--configure): >> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >> >> It couldn't create the file. Did /usr/share/cups/model have odd >> owenership or permissions beforehand? > > I wouldn't know, I never looked there before. Right now it's > drwxrwsr-t 2 root lpadmin 4096 Oct 20 15:56 /usr/share/cups/model/ > but since it works most of the time (see below), I guess these are the > right permissions. > >> If you purge cupsys-driver-gutenprint and try again, do you still get >> the problem? > > Hmm, it depends! I ran the purge+install sequence several times, and it > failed once. So I'm guessing there's some kind of race condition between > the two processes (cups-genppdconfig and cups-genppd) that's hard to > trigger. I don't really speak perl, so I can't say if it's even a > possibility, but it certainly looks like that.
We have since fixed a few issues in the postinst script and the
generator/update utilities, though I'm not sure if they should affect
this bug. I still can't reproduce it myself, so I would be grateful
if you could try to reproduce this failure with the new version
(4.3.99+cvs20060521-2).
Thanks,
Roger
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