Bug#497492: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#497492: Child exited on signal 13!

[Brian May <brian@vpac.org>]

Martin Pitt wrote:
> It does, since the crash happens due to a SIGPIPE, when a cups
> subprocess without stderr tries to write this warning to stderr.
>   
Yes, your right. I obviously didn't read the strace output properly...

> > Just to make sure, is there any runtime config option to disable this 
> > avahi stuff? We don't need it.
> >     
>
> Yes, you can use "BrowseProtocols CUPS" (or any other list which does
> not include DNSSD).
>   
Ok. In the unlikely event I still have problems, I will try that.

> I cannot reproduce the crash (it is a race condition), but I can do
> something to silence the warning, to prevent the crash from happening.
>   
Thanks. Will try it ASAP. Probably tomorrow, my time zone.

Assuming this works, do you think there is any chance of it getting into 
Lenny?

Brian May