Printers.conf Corruption

[Opher Shachar]

Hello,
I also am recently seeing all of what Jeff describes.
I have RedHat EL 5.2 with CUPS 1.2.4 .
Was this issue ever addressed? (I have not seen it in any STR)

Thanks,
Opher Shachar.

> Hello all,
>
> I am running cups-1.2.12-4.fc7 and am seeing random corruption of the
> printers.conf database.  Seems to happen once every couple of days, and
> has happened since the cups-1.2.10 install I began with on this box.
> The queue name will change to include extended ASCII characters.  The
> latest example is, <Printer STW208> changing to this (ASCII codes in
> right column):
>
> < 60
> P 80
> r 114
> i 105
> n 110
> t 116
> e 101
> r 114
>   32
> � 152
> i 105
> � 242
> � 128
> 
 1
> > 62
>
> This happens most often with queue names, but has also changed some
> DeviceURI's on me as well.  Anyone else see anything like this?
>
> -Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Hardy
> Systems Analyst
> hardyjm at potsdam.edu
>