Ubuntu
system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #387970
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 387970

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Alan Porter (alan.porter) wrote : Re: cups asks for root password

Woah... this is weird.

I have a Jaunty (9.04) machine. I tried upgrading it to Karmic (9.10), and I got THIS in the middle of my upgrade:

    Setting up cups-pdf (2.5.0-4) ...
     * Reloading Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [fail]
    Password for root on localhost?

Wow... an interactive password prompt during "apt-get dist-upgrade"!!

Sounds like a closely related issue.

Alan