On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:04:10PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 00:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:05:05AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Hmmm, we'll try to deal with this. Kenshi, as the CUPS thing > > > > maintainer, could you look at #315017 at some moment. > > > > > > In short, samba fails to use CUPS printers when it is started "too > > > > quickly" after CUPS is started (both start at "level 20" in init.d). > > > > > > This may also break other things which use CUPS after it is started, > > > > so this is probably not really specific to samba. > > > > > I think we should consider reassigning this bug to the cupsys package > > > with something like "CUPS printing services are not available > > > immediately afer the daemon is started". > > > > > Strictly speaking this should be RC as "this breaks unrelated > > > software".
> > I disagree. It's my understanding that this is a longstanding bug in samba > > for failing to sanely poll cups for information about available print > > queues. Even if cupsys *was* changed to only return from the init script > > after the printer lists have been made available, smbd still has a bug in > > not handling changes to the CUPS printer list. > I understand we now poll, btw... Ah, hurrah. :) Do you know which version this was fixed in? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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