[cups.bugs] CUPS segfault

[Michael R Sweet]

Eric Delaet wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Since I've added an extra cups server I'm experiencing crashes on my other cups-clients. Cups crashes, even without printing, just when it's idle, after a minute or so. I'm using the standard cupsd.conf file from the source package (listening on localhost only). The cups version is 1.3.5 (latest stable).
> 
> Strace output :
> 
> recvfrom(5, "905e 3 ipp://kiwi.kava.be:631/pr"..., 1540, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.0.70")}, [16]) = 167
> time(NULL)                              = 1202293880
> time(NULL)                              = 1202293880
> time(NULL)                              = 1202293880
> time(NULL)                              = 1202293880
> writev(1, [{"l\4\1\1\f\0\0\0 \0\0\0o\0\0\0\1\1o\0\32\0\0\0/com/red"..., 128}, {"\7\0\0\0netboek\0", 12}], 2) = 140
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> Process 15039 detached
> 
> Any idea where I can start looking ?

Run /usr/sbin/cupsd in gdb with:

     gdb /usr/sbin/cupsd
     run -f

and then wait for the segfault.  Then do:

     where

to see a backtrace, and post here.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer