Re: Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Till, On 22.10.2014 18:14, Till Kamppeter wrote: I have forwarded this report to Tim Waugh from Red Hat, original author of system-config-printer and he has answered me the following: [...] Thanks for forwarding this upstream. For the two bugs you mentioned there are fixes now: Thus I t

Re: Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have forwarded this report to Tim Waugh from Red Hat, original author of system-config-printer and he has answered me the following: -- > can you check this ppdcache.py problem mentioned here? I've committed a change which should stop the looping by failing the call on IOError. https://

Re: Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi OdyX, On 22.10.2014 11:24, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 21 octobre 2014, 20.09:08 Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit : Thus I think there are two bugs here: * cups should not create files with wrong permissions in /etc/cups/ppd Upstream seems to think differently; see http://cups.org/st

Re: Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Andreas, and thanks for the detailed analysis, Le mardi, 21 octobre 2014, 20.09:08 Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit : > This was caused by the referenced file in /etc/cups/ppd not having > sufficient permissions. > Every .ppd there had '-rw-r- 1 root lp' permissions, but > additionally there were

Re: Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

2014-10-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, I've also been bitten by this problem: * systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service hung like forever during boot * booting from a live system showed that 'ls ./tmp' hangs * 'ls -U ./tmp | wc -l' showed nearly 2 million files in tmp * 'find ./tmp -type l -delete' took several hours to delete the link