Package: avahi-daemon Version: 0.6.31-5 Control: affects -1 cups-daemon Since Debian jessie, cups uses avahi to broadcast its printers to the local network. I have a jessie cups with a few printers and publish them via avahi. Now I am seeing a little weird behaviour on client systems: After booting their cups daemons know about the broadcasted printers, but after some time (usually a few times a day) they forget. I have no clue what causes the client cups to forget about all network printers, but after issuing "service avahi-daemon restart" on the client machine, all the printers are back. Restarting something else (such as cups) doesn't get me the printers back instead. This lets me conclude that avahi-daemon somehow is the cause. I am observing this with both jessie and unstable client systems, so stretch is affected. The avahi-daemon.conf is pretty much the default with the exception of setting disable-publishing=yes on all client systems. I have no idea how to reliably trigger this bug (beyond waiting a day). Before and after restarting avahi-daemon, the output of "avahi-browse -at" looks no different (i.e. printers always show up there).
I understand that this bug description is quite vague. Still, it is fairly annoying and as it happens on multiple systems some of which are pretty close to defaults, I believe still believe it to be a bug. I already spent considerable time trying to diagnose it and intend to do further diagnosis if someone can provide hints as to what to check. It might even be a cups bug. Please reassign as appropriate. Thanks in advance Helmut _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
