[cups.bugs] Lots of backend processes after stopping cupsd?

[Andrea Sen]

It happens with lpd, usb and socket backend, but I didn't try the other 
ones.

For me it seems as if the backend is shutdown correctly, but the same 
job is restarted immediately, shutdown again and so on.


Michael Sweet wrote:
> We should be sending SIGKILL to the backends on shutdown - which backends are sticking around?
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> On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Andrea Sen wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> if I restart my server, while there is still running a backend process (if a job could not be printed for some reasons), it seems as if this process is started over and over again.
>> This happens also, if I just stop cupsd, then there are 1000 or more processes belonging to cups. Mainly backend processes, but also some cupsd processes. Most of them are marked as defunct.
>>
>> Is this the correct behavior? Shutting down the server takes some time, I think because all the processes have to be stopped?
>>
>> I use Ubuntu 9.04, but compiled cups-1.4.4 on my own. Printing and everything else works well...
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Andrea Sen
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