[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#378860: Cupsys daily segfaults: duplicate entry in printers.conf?

[Christian Perrier]

retitle 378860 Cups daemon segfaults when restarted and printers.conf 
includes duplicated entries
thanks

Luc Dufresne a écrit :
> Le jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 12:43:47 (+0100), Luc Dufresne a écrit :
>>> Investigation showed this was due to duplicated entries in printers.conf
>>>
>>> Could you check whether you had this problem *because* of a duplicated  
>>> entry or if this is a completely unrelated problem?
>> My printers.conf is rather long! But with an empty one Cups doesn't
>> crash. I'm going the search for a duplicated entry.
> 
> I found two duplicated entries (don't know where they came from). Cups
> doesn't crash after removing them.


That confirms our diagnostic and that we're talking about the same problem.

Kenshi, is this something that's already known upstream?

We can't really tag this as "serious" and thus enforce a future fix to 
be ported to etch but it definitely deserves some attention.