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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