Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-7 Severity: important
I had problems with cupsd hanging after a variable period of use. I was able to track it down to the fact that cupsd was blocking forever at sendto's of messages it was broadcasting on a network as part of it's "browsing" scheme. SUGGESTED FIX: change the mode of the socket descriptor to non-blocking! Further explanation: My system was installed with BrowseAddress set to "@LOCAL" which cupsd apparently interpreted to mean all of my networks... in particular, the problem i had was the "network" that connects me to my DSL modem. Not what one might expect by "@LOCAL" but hey... I'm not entirely sure why the socket filled up (causing the blocking)... (i do have a firewall installed). But changing the configuration to specify only my local network fixed the problem. It would be nice if other people didn't have to waste the time that i did... making the socket non-blocking seems simple enough. Perhaps some fix to the resolution of "@LOCAL" might be a good idea also... Thanks, Ted Merrill -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Versions of packages cupsys depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.46 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.23-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact ii libslp1 1.0.11a-2 OpenSLP libraries ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl-modules 5.8.4-8 Core Perl modules ii xpdf-utils 3.00-13 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: * cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/lpr-backend-setuid: false * cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, serial, socket, usb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
