Package: cups Version: 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 Severity: grave Tags: squeeze I tried to run an apt-get dist-upgrade, but cups doesn't upgrade cleanly because of a conflict with package cups-pdf:
joe@tux:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Starting Starting 2 Done Done The following packages will be upgraded: cups 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 12 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/2,020 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 167164 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace cups 1.4.4-7 (using .../cups_1.4.4-7+squeeze1_i386.deb) ... Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd. Unpacking replacement cups ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cups_1.4.4-7+squeeze1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/cups', which is also in package cups-pdf 2.5.0-16 configured to not write apport reports dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 1! Message from syslogd@tux at Dec 5 09:10:18 ... cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting! .. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/cups_1.4.4-7+squeeze1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) joe@tux:~$ -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cups depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii bc 1.06.95-2 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal pn cups-client <none> (no description available) pn cups-common <none> (no description available) pn cups-ppdc <none> (no description available) ii debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-9 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib pn libcups2 <none> (no description available) pn libcupscgi1 <none> (no description available) pn libcupsdriver1 <none> (no description available) pn libcupsimage2 <none> (no description available) pn libcupsmime1 <none> (no description available) pn libcupsppdc1 <none> (no description available) ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libijs-0.35 0.35-7 IJS raster image transport protoco ii libkrb5-3 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.23-7.2 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.24 library for handling paper charact ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1.2 PDF rendering library ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.8 OpenSLP libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-16 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii poppler-utils 0.12.4-1.2 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities ii ssl-cert 1.0.28 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cups recommends: ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.6-1 printer drivers for CUPS ii foomatic-filters 4.0.5-6 OpenPrinting printer support - fil ii ghostscript-cups 8.71~dfsg2-9 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF Versions of packages cups suggests: pn cups-bsd <none> (no description available) ii cups-pdf 2.5.0-16 PDF printer for CUPS ii foomatic-db 20100630-1 OpenPrinting printer support - dat pn hplip <none> (no description available) ii smbclient 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze5 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for ii udev 164-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo pn xpdf-korean | xpd <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org