Cups daemon dies on some time of inactivity

[Michael Sweet]

Juergen Schroeder wrote:
> Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> wrote:
> 
> : You need to use the "-f" option for cupsd so that it runs in the
> : foreground.
> 
> Did that, so I got the last messages in the truss output:
> ...
> 
> ---------
> This is the time cupsd dies
> 
> $ ll /etc/cups/core /etc/cups/certs/0 /etc/printcap /tmp/cupsd.truss.7413
> -r--r-----   1 root     sys            32 Aug 30 14:37 /etc/cups/certs/0
> -rw-------   1 root     other     1817660 Aug 30 14:38 /etc/cups/core
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other         786 Aug 30 14:38 /etc/printcap
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     other     1545633 Aug 30 14:38 /tmp/cupsd.truss.7413
> 
> $ file core
> core:           ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'cupsd'
> 
> Hope this helps

If you can run gdb or dbx against cupsd and the core file, then
use the "where" command to see where it crashed, we might be on the
road to identifying the problem.

Thanks!

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