Web page 'Jobs' page shows only one job

[Michael Sweet]

John A. Murdie wrote:
> ...
> When I installed successive versions of CUPS, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5 and
> 1.2.7 (I skipped 1.2.6!) I stopped the old cupsd and then, to
> preserve the page.log file, I used the command e.g. 'mv
> /spool/cups-1.2.5 /spool/cups-1.2.7' rather than 'cd
> /spool/cups-1.2.7; cp ../cups-1.2.5/log/cups/page.log .' (and then
> started the new cupsd). Amazingly, this gives rise to the effect I
> describe above. (I can't be sure that I've not simply been bringing
> forward some once-corrupted cups variable state directory each time -
> how could I tell, if so?)

It could be that the state information didn't match up; the spool
directory and job cache are read on startup, and if it doesn't see
a discrepancy it will happily use the cached information, even if
it happens to be wrong.

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