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

[Michael Sweet]

At this point I have been unable to reproduce the problem with standard CUPS.  Feel free to file a bug on cups.org for this (and please include as much detail, log files, configuration info, etc. as you can), but don't expect a fast fix.

http://www.cups.org/str.php


On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Andrea Sen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> as far as I didn't get any response, I'd like to know, if this bug will 
> be solved in the next release (or later)?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Andrea Sen
> 
> Andrea Sen wrote:
>> 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?
>>> 
>>> On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Andrea Sen wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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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