(SOLVED) Re: CUPS gone mad

[Christophe Courtois <christophe@courtois.cc>]

> >  * Although it worked perfectly some times ago When trying to print
> > something from Gimp or KDE, Cups creates hundred thousands of files
> > (000xxxx) in /var/spool/cups/. These are almost all 34796 bytes
> > long,a d and file says these are "PostScript document text conforming
> > at level 1.0 " .
> >  I must stop cups by /etc/init.d/cupsys stop to gain control on my
> > computer back, or it swaps until death.

 Solved by upgrading cupsys-client/server/bsd... and hpijs (for a HP 
Deskjet) to sarge (cups 1.14).
 It may have been another corrupted file on my system, but it was well 
hidden (I had reinstalled most of them).

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