The debug2 LogLevel is extremely verbose. Use it only if really necessary, usually only if you report a bug and the developer taking care of the bug tells you to use this mode. Make sure to stop using this mode when you are done investigating.
To get back to the normal debug mode use cupsctl --debug-logging and to get back to the standard mode us cupsctl --no-debug-logging Please check whether the excessive log file spamming stops in normal debug mode (also check whether you really have "LogLevel debug" and NOT "LogLevel debug2" in your cupsd.conf then). If logging is still much more excessive than with older CUPS versions in the normal debug mode or even, in standard mode, report an upstream bug: http://www.cups.org/str.php ** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1421252 Title: after upgrade, cups writes gigabytes of "error" logs a day Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: After upgrading yesterday to the latest cups package, my root partition is filling up at the rate of more than a gigabyte per day, as a result of /var/log/cups/error.log being filled with useless messages. Examples: D [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] [Client 60] POST / HTTP/1.1 D [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients", busy="Not busy" D [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] [Client 60] Read: status=200 d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdFindBest: uri = "/"... d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdFindBest: Location /admin/conf Limit 7f d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdFindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdFindBest: Location / Limit 7f d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdFindBest: best = / d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] [Client 60] con->uri="/", con->best=0x7fc8ee5c22f0(/) d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] [Client 60] Authorization="" D [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] [Client 60] No authentication data provided. d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdIsAuthorized: con->uri="/", con->best=0x7fc8ee5c22f0(/) d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdIsAuthorized: level=CUPSD_AUTH_ANON, type=None, satisfy=CUPSD_AUTH_SATISFY_ALL, num_names=0 d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdIsAuthorized: auth=CUPSD_AUTH_ALLOW... D [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] [Client 60] 2.0 Get-Jobs 111841 d [12/Feb/2015:06:58:49 -0800] cupsdAddSelect(fd=19, read_cb=(nil), write_cb=(nil), data=0x7fc8ee900a80) A look at /etc/cups/cupsd.conf shows that 'LogLevel debug2' is set in this file. I don't remember ever setting this, but the timestamp on the file is from Oct 2012 - so this hasn't been causing a problem until now. I would not expect a 'debug' log setting to cause an error log to balloon out of control. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: cups 2.0.2-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-8.9-generic 3.18.1 Uname: Linux 3.18.0-8-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.16.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Feb 12 06:56:06 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-24 (1602 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1) MachineType: LENOVO 2306CTO Papersize: letter PpdFiles: Error: command ['fgrep', '-H', '*NickName', 'HP-Officejet-Pro-8600.ppd', '/etc/cups/ppd/HP-ENVY-4500-series.ppd', '/etc/cups/ppd/HP-Color-LaserJet-CM1312-MFP.ppd', '/etc/cups/ppd/davidson-printer.ppd'] failed with exit code 2: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-Officejet-Pro-8600: HP Officejet Pro 8600, hpcups 3.14.6 grep: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-ENVY-4500-series.ppd: Permission denied HP-Color-LaserJet-CM1312-MFP: HP Color LaserJet CM1312 MFP Series Postscript (recommended) davidson-printer: HP Color LaserJet CP3505 Postscript (recommended) ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.18.0-8-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2014-12-06 (68 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: G2ET97WW (2.57 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 2306CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Defined dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrG2ET97WW(2.57):bd10/25/2013:svnLENOVO:pn2306CTO:pvrThinkPadX230:rvnLENOVO:rn2306CTO:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 2306CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X230 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO modified.conffile..etc.cups.cupsd.conf: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1421252/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
