[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #1491: Unable to create job status pipes - Too many open files.

Joost joost at versdirect.nl
Thu Mar 16 13:04:04 PST 2006


[STR New]

We are currently running into problems with the cups-1.2b2-rhel4 package,
used in combination with Samba to provide printing services to Windows
clients. CUPS seems to run fine for a while, but after a while it stops
printing.

At first lots of the following messages get logged:
Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 7882) for job 68531.
Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 7883) for job 68532.

After a while the system grinds to a halt:
Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 7952) for job 68583.
[Job 68583] /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket: Too many open files
PID 7952 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket) stopped with status 24!

Then messages like the following are logged when starting new jobs:
Unable to open "/dev/null" - Too many open files.
Unable to create job status pipes - Too many open files.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1491
Version: 1.2b2
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