Bug#613846: cups: Various segfaults with silent exits, daemon quits

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

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thanks



On Thu 17 Feb 2011 at 12:20:53 -0500, Dominique Brazziel wrote:

Hello Dominique. Thank you for your report.

>     After attempting to print the web page at 
> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/17880588.aspx,
> the list of available printers stopped after showing 'print to file'
> and only after looking around did I notice that the cups daemon was
> not running.  Restart attempts failed to bring the daemon up because
> the old pid file was still around.  After starting the daemon it kept
> failing, not always with a segfault.
> 
>     After cleaning out the cups spool totally ('rm -rf *' from
> '/var/spool/cups/') and restarting cups with debug turned on
> I still experience some cups segfaults, most recently when trying
> to display active and/or completed jobs.

How are you going on with these segfaults on stable, testing or unstable?

Regards,

Brian.