[cups.general] Broken pipe error when changing printer options on 1.5.4

Alex Korobkin korobkin+cups at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 09:10:12 PDT 2012


I was wrong about 1.5.3, it happens for both versions. Weird thing, when I
try to reproduce it with strace tracing parent cupsd process, admin.cgi
works perfectly every time. What could cause admin.cgi to exit to early,
and why wouldn't it do that under strace?

On 19 September 2012 13:47, Alex Korobkin wrote:

> I recompiled 1.5.3, and this doesn't happen with it. Only version 1.5.4
> seems to show this behavior.
>
> On 19 September 2012 12:22, Alex Korobkin wrote:
>
>> Hello team,
>>
>> I've compiled CUPS 1.5.4 for Ubuntu 10.04 x64, all the built-in tests
>> went fine, but I encountered a problem with its web interface:
>> Every time when I try to change printer options via Administration > Set
>> Default Options, I see "Cannot set default options: Broken pipe" error
>> page.
>>
>> Here is the debug2 log attached to the email. During the short 2 min
>> session recorded in this log I started the server, successfully
>> authenticated to it, opened mf-test printer settings and tried to change
>> its default options.
>>
>> Could you please tell me where to look for the clues, what could be the
>> cause of this problem?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> -Alex
>>
>> error.zip renamed into error.piz in accordance with mailing-list rules.
>
>
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