Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Till, On 22.10.2014 18:14, Till Kamppeter wrote: I have forwarded this report to Tim Waugh from Red Hat, original author of system-config-printer and he has answered me the following: [...] Thanks for forwarding this upstream. For the two bugs you mentioned there are fixes now: Thus I t

Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have forwarded this report to Tim Waugh from Red Hat, original author of system-config-printer and he has answered me the following: -- > can you check this ppdcache.py problem mentioned here? I've committed a change which should stop the looping by failing the call on IOError. https://

Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi OdyX, On 22.10.2014 11:24, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 21 octobre 2014, 20.09:08 Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit : Thus I think there are two bugs here: * cups should not create files with wrong permissions in /etc/cups/ppd Upstream seems to think differently; see http://cups.org/st

Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Andreas, and thanks for the detailed analysis, Le mardi, 21 octobre 2014, 20.09:08 Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit : > This was caused by the referenced file in /etc/cups/ppd not having > sufficient permissions. > Every .ppd there had '-rw-r- 1 root lp' permissions, but > additionally there were

Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, I've also been bitten by this problem: * systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service hung like forever during boot * booting from a live system showed that 'ls ./tmp' hangs * 'ls -U ./tmp | wc -l' showed nearly 2 million files in tmp * 'find ./tmp -type l -delete' took several hours to delete the link

Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-21 Thread Peter De Wachter
I can answer some of the questions asked in that discussion: I printed five jobs, three from icedove and two from evince, less than 20 pages in total. In the CUPS admin site I don't see anything odd (i.e. there no millions of failed jobs listed or anything like that). Launchpad #890705 and Red Ha

Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 06 Oct 2014 at 19:06:33 +0200, Peter De Wachter wrote: > After printing a couple of things (using icedove and evince), I noticed my > laptop became rather sluggish. Turns out that (a) a "scp-dbus-service" Python > script was using a lot of CPU time, and (b) I had literally millions of > sym

Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-06 Thread Peter De Wachter
Package: system-config-printer Version: 1.4.3-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After printing a couple of things (using icedove and evince), I noticed my laptop became rather sluggish. Turns out that (a) a "scp-dbus-service" Python script was using a lot of CPU time, and (b) I had literally