On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:41:22PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:39:16PM +0200, Jan Möbius wrote: > > sometimes rpc.statd binds to port 631 udp which is used by cups. Therefore cups is unable to bind to its port and no printers get discovered. > > > > Rebooting the system helps as rpc.statd uses another port afterwards. > > This is a fundamental problem of the bindresvport() function, and > not specific to rpc.statd. Reassigning to general. Actually, according to the manpage: Unlike some bindresvport() implementations, the glibc implementation ignores any value that the caller supplies in sin->sin_port. Fixing this might be a useful way around the problem. I'd code up a patch, but eglibc won't take it without copyright assignment. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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