Bug#762184: cups error_log fills hard disk
Package: cups
Version: 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
in the last week I've had two of our servers fill up the hard disk with
errors in the cups error_log:
host ~/var-log-cups # ll
total 308G
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 285G Sep 19 11:50 error_log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.6G Sep 19 00:00 error_log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.4G Sep 18 00:00 error_log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.5G Sep 17 00:00 error_log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.5G Sep 16 00:00 error_log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.6G Sep 15 00:00 error_log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.6G Sep 14 00:00 error_log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2.2G Sep 13 00:00 error_log.7.gz
host ~/var-log-cups # head -n 10000 error_log | tail
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:43
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:64
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:65
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:66
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:67
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:68
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:69
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:70
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:71
E [19/Sep/2014:00:08:26 +0200] [Job 3972] Illegal output call of P2PObject:72
host ~/var-log-cups # head -n 100000 error_log | grep -v 'Illegal output' | wc -l
113
host ~/var-log-cups # head -n 100000 error_log | grep 'Illegal output' | wc -l
99887
I haven't been able to figure out the root cause of this issue yet, but I
think the fact that CUPS is filling up the hard disk with logs is a bug on its
own which should be prevented somehow.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii bc 1.06.95-2+b1
ii cups-client 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii cups-common 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii cups-filters 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u1
ii cups-ppdc 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
ii dpkg 1.16.15
ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-2
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-2
ii libc-bin 2.13-38+deb7u4
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u4
ii libcups2 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii libcupscgi1 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii libcupsimage2 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii libcupsmime1 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii libcupsppdc1 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1+deb7u4
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5
ii libgnutls26 2.12.20-8+deb7u2
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2
ii libkrb5-3 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.31-1+nmu2
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1
ii libpaper1 1.1.24+nmu2
ii libslp1 1.2.1-9
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.11-1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii poppler-utils 0.18.4-6
ii procps 1:3.3.3-3
ii ssl-cert 1.0.32
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-2
pn colord <none>
ii foomatic-filters 4.0.17-1
ii ghostscript-cups 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1
pn printer-driver-gutenprint <none>
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.5.3-5+deb7u4
pn cups-pdf <none>
ii foomatic-db 20120523-1
pn hplip <none>
pn printer-driver-hpcups <none>
ii smbclient 2:3.6.19-1~bpo70+1
ii udev 175-7.2
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cups-files.conf changed:
SystemGroup admins
AccessLog /var/log/cups/access_log
ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log
PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, ipp14, lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
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