Bug#374933: /usr/bin/lpstat: 'lpstat -l -d -p -v' leads to infinite loop with more than one printer instance

[Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>]

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Hi Chris,

Chris Lawrence [2006-06-22  1:04 -0400]:
> On my system (and presumably others), the command line
> > lpstat -l -d -p -v
> or
> > lpstat -l -d -p
> 
> leads to an infinite loop that will consume all system memory and CPU.
> 
> It seems to get stuck when I have more than one extra instance of the
> printer in my .lpoptions file (e.g. hl5170dn/bond, hl5170dn/duplex).
> When I only have zero or one instances, there is no problem.

Do you still have the problem in recent Lenny/testing or unstable
versions?

Can you please attach your ~/.lpoptions and /etc/cups/printers.conf
files, so that I can reproduce the issue?

Thanks,

Martin

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