Bug#764472: cups creates millions of temporary files when printing
Antonio,
Please don't forget to Cc the bug report. I'v bounced your previous two
mails there so there is no need to do anything about those.
On Thu 09 Oct 2014 at 11:05:44 +0200, Antonio Sartori wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> Some additional information:
>
> The links are created when printing with evince, but not when printing
> with lp. (Actually, printing with evince produces blank pages, but I
> don't know whether this is related - maybe it's a problem of my pdf file.)
>
> The links continue to be created after the print command from evince has
> been given (about 500000 links per minute). During this, a process uses
> most of the cpu, and it is
>
> /usr/bin/python /usr/share/system-config-printer/scp-dbus-service.py
>
> Killing this process, the creation of symlinks stops. So I guess this is
> what creates this lot of symlinks.
>
> I am not quite sure now whether this is a bug of evince, or of
> system-config-printer or something else.
Nice progress. I'm thinking that your report should be reassigned to
system-config-printer and merged with #764253:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764253
But before doing so let us see if we can give the maintainers there some
help.
Acroread is non-running but I'd be happier if it were not around. Please
would you purge it from the system and try a print or two. From evince
is one obvious application. Iceweasel uses the same GTK print dialog so
it too would be suitable.
Another couple of links to rather old bug reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582202
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498743
Regards,
Brian.
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