Tom Whitten writes:
> Karl Rossing writes:
> > The cups problem should be reproducible. I just need to gather up more
> > information before I submit a bug.
> >
> > I was seeing the svc:/application/cups/scheduler:default restart every 3
> > seconds.
> > [ Jun 18 13:05:27 Stopping because process dumped core. ]
> > [ Jun 18 13:05:27 Executing stop method (:kill). ]
> > [ Jun 18 13:05:27 Executing start method ("/usr/sbin/cupsd"). ]
> > [ Jun 18 13:05:28 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
> > [ Jun 18 13:05:30 Stopping because process dumped core. ]
> >
> > Turns out that it was not cupsd but hpijs core'ing while trying to process
> > what I think is an adobe acrobat 9.1.2(x64) job on an HP deskjet 5250. I'm
> > not sure why cupds would restart if a sub process would core.
> >
> > So the restart of the cupsd service would cause all queued job to restart
> > on the 1st page and the cycle would continue so each print job would
> > continue to print out on the same 1st page.
> >
> > We probably printed 3000 pages today like this.
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> Karl,
>
> By design SMF restarts services when one of its processes dumps core. The
> thinking is that this is not normal behavior for a service, so perhaps the
> service is no longer running properly.
>
> As Antonello mentioned, you can change this behavior by using svccfg to set
> the startd/ignore_error property of the service to "core". See the man
> pages for svc.startd(1M) where the property is discussed and svccfg(1M) for
> instructions on setting properties.
>
> tom
>
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To be more specific, you can create the file /tmp/commands with these three
lines in it.
addpg startd framework
setprop startd/ignore_error = astring: core
refresh
Then as root you can apply the file of commands by typing:
svccfg -s svc:/application/cups/scheduler:default -f /tmp/commands
tom
