This bug was fixed in the package cups - 1.7.1-4ubuntu1

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cups (1.7.1-4ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * cupsd-upstart-support.patch: Allow starting cupsd socket-triggered
    through Upstart, for on-demand starting to save resources (especially
    on mobile devices, LP: #1276713).
  * cupsd-exit-on-idle.patch: Add mode to let cupsd terminate when it is idle,
    also for running CUPS on-demand. If the mode is activated, either by
    ExitOnIdleTimeout=TIMEOUT in cupsd.conf, by "-x TIMEOUT" on the cupsd
    command line or by setting the env variable CUPSD_EXIT_ON_IDLE_TIMEOUT=
    TIMEOUT (With TIMEOUT in all theree cases the idle timeout in seconds,
    0 turning off the feature, off by default), cupsd terminates when it
    is idle (no jobs, no shared printers) for the given timeout.
  * cupsd-exit-on-idle-upstart.patch: Set idle timeout of cupsd to 30 sec
    if CUPS is started socket-triggered by Upstart and the timeout is not
    explicitly set (LP: #1276713).
  * airprint-support.patch, pidfile.patch,
    do-not-broadcast-with-hostnames.patch, confdirperms.patch,
    log-debug-history-nearly-unlimited.patch,
    cupsd-set-default-for-SyncOnClose-to-Yes.patch: Refreshed with quilt.
 -- Till Kamppeter <[email protected]>   Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:08:01 +0100

** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  upstart socket activation for cups

Status in Upstart:
  Confirmed
Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  tkamppeter and I, worked on porting cups to use socket activation.
  There were a few issues:

  cups by default, binds to "localhost:631" it does it by resolving
  localhost and then binding to all IP address there were returned, so
  by default it does ::1 and 127.0.0.1.

  Once that configuration option is established a list of sockets is
  generated, we've modified initialisation to look at UPSTART_FDS
  (similar to uwsgi) and replace matching sockets passed to us into the
  list.

  This appears to work fine, apart from it appeared as if sockets passed
  by upstart to us are bound to 0.0.0.0 regardless of the configuration
  (or so getsockname tells cups).

  Secondly since upstart only gives us one socket, i opted to modify
  cups config to explicitely listen on ipv4 127.0.0.1 and disabled the
  unix domain socket option, such that clients socket activate cups and
  communicate via that socket.

  After doing all of the above, we noticed that although cups is started
  and is managed by upstart and cups logs indicate that it apparently
  has resumed accepting connections.... but there is already a client
  connection / request pending which activated cups in the first place.
  After inspecting netstat it was apparent that connection has
  buffered/unprocessed packets still waiting for a reply. Eventually a
  client that socket activated cups timesout and exits, and subsequent
  connections work correctly. I believe that we didn't increment "client
  connection count" to one in CUPS state-machine or some such.

  Following example code within upstart which performs lauchd socket
  activation was not useful either, as that code path is clearly buggy,
  since it incorrectly checks for error/return codes of getsockname.

  I'll attach the state of our patch work to this bug report.

  I dislike, how "accepting connections" is paused/resumed and how cups
  does dns resolution and thus listens on more connections than
  configured to. I think best way to proceed is to instead investigate
  and patch unix domain socket activation for cups, as hopefully that is
  slightly more reliable from the upstart-socket-bridge.

  The bug of not processing the first connection, i presume, is in cups
  codebase - unless we are required to replay the messages.

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