Bug#378860: Cupsys daily segfaults: duplicate entry in printers.conf?

[Luc Dufresne <luc.dufresne@angersloiremetropole.fr>]

Le jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 11:17:23 (+0100), Christian Perrier a écrit :
> Lionel, Luc,
>
> We experienced about the same bug on our print server pool (running Etch  
> and the 1.2.7-4 package) . Cups was crashing daily during the cron.daily  
> runs (where the daemon is restarted after log rotation: see  
> /etc/logrotate.d/cupsys).

Same here, Cups crashes each time when asked to be reloaded: 
invoke-rc.d --quiet cupsys force-reload

> Investigation showed this was due to duplicated entries in printers.conf
>
> Could you check whether you had this problem *because* of a duplicated  
> entry or if this is a completely unrelated problem?

My printers.conf is rather long! But with an empty one Cups doesn't
crash. I'm going the search for a duplicated entry.

> To Cupsys maintainers: I have the test case handy and even a test server  
> where I can happily crash cups in case some investigation is needed.

I also have a server where I can crash cups when I want.