** Summary changed: - Gutsy: Bad interaction with avahi + [Gutsy SRU Request] Bad interaction with avahi
** Description changed: Binary package hint: cupsys Exporting printers via avahi (i.e. mdns) doesn't work well on gutsy. The two problems I see are: - 1) On bootup cups gets started before avahi => Shared printers don't - show up in mdns unless one restarts cups + 1) (fixed in avahi) On bootup cups gets started before avahi => Shared + printers don't show up in mdns unless one restarts cups - 2) Every morning when the log files get rotated, shared printers - disappear from mdns. I haven't inspected this closer yet. The only way - to fix it is restarting cups again. + 2) (fixed in cupsys) Every morning when the log files get rotated, + shared printers disappear from mdns. I haven't inspected this closer + yet. The only way to fix it is restarting cups again. Both problems are quite annoying because Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) clients only see printers shared via mdns, normal cups broadcasts get ignored. So currently we have to restart cups every morning so OS X users can print. + + TEST CASE: + + 1) Fix in avahi + + Reboot your system and do + + sudo apt-get install avahi-utils + avahi-browse -k -t -v -r -a + + Does the output contain IPP printer entries representing the queues of + your local CUPS daemon? + + 2) Fix in cupsys + + Get your network's broadcast address(es) via the "ifconfig" command. + This is the address/these are the addresses after "BCast:" in the + sections of each interface representing a local network (in most cases + everything except "lo"). + + Now edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf commenting out (preceeding by a "#") the + "BrowseAddress @LOCAL" line and adding a line + + BrowseAddress <broadcast address>:631 + + for each of your broadcast addresses. + + Now do two attempts of restarting CUPS: + + a) sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart: After this kind of restart you will + always have broadcasting of local printers working, with or without this + bug present. + + b) sudo killall -HUP cupsd: After this restart broadcasting will stop if + this bug is present. + + For testing the presence of CUPS' broadcasting, either do + + sudo apt-get install avahi-utils + avahi-browse -k -t -v -r -a + + or see whether your print queues appear on another Linux box in your + network which runs CUPS (and has listening for broadcasts activated). -- [Gutsy SRU Request] Bad interaction with avahi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173470 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
