Public bug reported:
douglas@kip:~$ ls -al /tmp
total 776
drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 311296 Aug 13 22:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Aug 13 01:11 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:23 5028d5b139823 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:23 5028d5b13991e ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:23 5028d5b63d404 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5c0995b4 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5c0996c1 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5c53f8b4 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5cf3d59e ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5cf3d6d3 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5d441983 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5de3f5b6 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5de3f6ac ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5e356e6b ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5ed41547 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5ed41756 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:24 5028d5f245913 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d5fc4353a ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d5fc43612 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d60147aec ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d60b45553 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d60b45667 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d61048ea4 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d61a475b8 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d61a477c6 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d61f4b287 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d62949020 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d629490ec ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:25 5028d62e4eaef ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:26 5028d6384b307 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:26 5028d6384b424 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:26 5028d63d4f917 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 douglas douglas 41 Aug 13 22:26 5028d6474d4a1 ->
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother-HL-2070N-series.ppd
...and so on. A new one every 5 seconds or so, for ever and ever.
The Brother-HL-2070N in question is a network printer, and is always
there.
Version 1.3.8+20120201-0ubuntu8.1 on 12.04 with an XFCE/gnome
desktop.
I have fixed the problem by uninstalling these packages.
** Affects: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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