Resolved the issue by deleting the ppd cache. Apparently there were recursive symlinks in the ppd directory which had caused an over 81k ppds to be cached. I do not know how this came to be; but, somewhere in the various and sundry upgrades it happened.
-- gnome-cups-add causes cupsd/cups-driverd to spin forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39078 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
