Bug#634937: /usr/sbin/cupsd: segfault in libavahi-common

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

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Hello Daniel,

Thank you for your report.

On Wed 20 Jul 2011 at 22:54:26 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:

> Unplugging the printer (HP OfficeJet J4580 All-in-One) results in
> segault in libavahi (see logs below)
>
> In addition (not sure if related), attempting to print from Iceweasel
> or Evince results in part of a page being printed then timeout and the
> following messages after the segfault syslogs below.
> 
> Segfault Syslog
> ---------------
> Jul 20 22:36:25 daniloth kernel: [  689.475096] cupsd[3864]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fe0d98e3ff6 sp 00007fffdc201e58 error 4 in libavahi-common.so.3.5.3[7fe0d98df000+c000]

A cups-avahi patch is included in Debian cups and this was updated in
1.5.0-2 and 1.5.0-9. It is possible one or the other of them fixed your
problem. It would be good if you would report whether or not the crashes
still happen with an up-to-date testing/unstable.

Regards,

Brian.