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Bug#383291: cupsys: cups-driverd list enters an infinite loop



Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: important

I am unable to add printers. I tracked the problem down to cups-driverd.
To test, I run cups-driverd like this:

/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-driverd list 1 10000 ''

Debug output and strace shows that it reads all the ppd files. Then
it enters an infinite loop. I tried removing the last ppd files by
renaming linuxprinting.org/Xerox to .Xerox. This rename had the
intended effect that cups-driverd no longer scanned the Xerox ppd
files. However, it still entered an infinite loop after Tektronix.

I also tried moving away the whole linuxprinting.org-gs directory.
This had the intended effect that none of the linuxprinting.org-gs
ppd files were scanned. However, cups-driverd still entered an
infinite loop, as before.

This is a very serious problem. Not being able to add printers
makes me look like a fool.  ;-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-b2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.59            Add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common            1.2.2-1         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.4.34          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.2.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libacl1                  2.2.23-1        Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-7         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.1-3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.2-1         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.62-4          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.4.0-3         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13+b1    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.76-22         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.14-0.4      Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.0.8a-2        OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-10          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.4-11        Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.4-2         Core Perl modules.
ii  procps                   1:3.2.1-2       The /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-6          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb




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