PPD directory missing

angelb angelb at bugarin.us
Tue Feb 19 15:09:24 PST 2008


> angelb wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I've just recently upgraded a CUPS 1.2 server to CUPS 1.3.5(TWW
> > package) and looking at the error log, it's reporting the PPD
> > file does not exist:
> >
> > E [19/Feb/2008:15:21:43 -0600] [cups-driverd] Unable to open PPD directory "/usr/local/share/ppd": No such file or directory
> > E [19/Feb/2008:15:21:43 -0600] [cups-driverd] Unable to open PPD directory "/opt/share/ppd": No such file or directory
> >
> > I checked the CUPS 1.3.5 system which I installed from source about a
> > week ago and it too is reporting the PPD directory does not exist. Since this also happens with the source, the problem may not be TWW
> > related.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone else have ran into this?
>
> It can safely be ignored, although I think we want to not show an
> error when these (optional) directories are missing... :(

It doesn't seem to affect CUPS so I'm ignoring it. It did manage to
create a PPD file in the correct directory when I modified a printer
queue.

One thing for certain though, it does quickly fill up your log even at
Info level.... :)

Thanks,
Angel




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