cups: "Can't create temporary file"

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Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 17 May 2020 20:54
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Hi,

so I was trying to print something after a long time of not printing anything.

I got the error message "Can't creeate temporary file" in http://localhost:631.

The reason was that /var/spool/cups/tmp was

drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp tmp

when it should have been

drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp tmp

otherwise HP PSC 2170 wouldn't print.
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Efraim Flashner wrote on 17 May 2020 21:05
(name . Danny Milosavljevic)(address . dannym@scratchpost.org)(address . 41367@debbugs.gnu.org)
20200517190528.GH31833@E5400
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 08:54:57PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> so I was trying to print something after a long time of not printing anything.
>
> I got the error message "Can't creeate temporary file" in http://localhost:631 .
>
> The reason was that /var/spool/cups/tmp was
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp tmp
>
> when it should have been
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp tmp
>
> otherwise HP PSC 2170 wouldn't print.

The cups service, in (gnu services cups) line 916, creates
/var/spool/cups as #o755. Sounds like it should be #o775.


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Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 17 May 2020 22:42
20200517224218.7039bea4@scratchpost.org
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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 18 May 2020 12:18
(name . Danny Milosavljevic)(address . dannym@scratchpost.org)(address . 41367@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

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> Found a previous bug report at
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> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2018-10/msg00177.html

Alternative URL:


I also ran into this problem and making the directory group-writable
fixed it.

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Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 26 May 2020 15:58
(address . 41367@debbugs.gnu.org)
20200526155835.4b8808f4@scratchpost.org
On Sun, 17 May 2020 20:54:57 +0200
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

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> I got the error message "Can't creeate temporary file" in http://localhost:631.
>
> The reason was that /var/spool/cups/tmp was
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp tmp
>
> when it should have been
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp tmp
>
> otherwise HP PSC 2170 wouldn't print.

After fixing that, it eventually auto-broke again after some time.
Permissions automatically reverted to the former ones.

Endless error loop :P
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Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 26 May 2020 16:04
(address . 41367-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
20200526160428.0c2b116e@scratchpost.org
Fixed in guix master commit 6ac7526e488ad3dd73080d1c00efe2066b1bf0a2.
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