Bug#758665: cups-daemon: The cups daemon stops and starts continuously when browsing

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

reassign 758665 cups-daemon
retitle 758665 cups-daemon: The cups daemon stops and starts continuously when browsing
thanks


On Wed 20 Aug 2014 at 00:33:06 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:

> My network is serviced by a Wheezy machine whose printers are advertised
> only with the CUPS protocol. cups was stopped and the behaviour on the
> unstable machine ceased. The same effect was obtained by removing 'cups'
> from BrowseRemoteProtocols in cups-browsed.conf.

My understanding is that the shutdown of cupsd takes place when all the
following conditions are met:

  There must be no active jobs pending.
  cups must not be browsing shared print queues on the network or advertising its own print queues,
  IdleExitTimeout must be set (with the default or explicitly).
  "timeout" must be greater than or equal to IdleExitTimeout.

When cups-browsed is running with the default 'BrowseRemoteProtocols' we
would consequently expect cups to remain active and running.

This does not look like a cups-browsed bug, so reassigning.

Regards,

Brian.