[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#667995: cupsd configuration: "cupsdAuthorize: Empty Basic password!"

[Shai Berger]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.2-9
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Whenever trying to use printer-configuration utilities  (I'm using Gnome's)
I get, when trying to actually do something, cupsd at ~66% CPU, spamming
its log files with thousands of copies of 

E [08/Apr/2012:01:46:10 +0300] cupsdAuthorize: Empty Basic password!

When this happens, the configuration interface appears to be stuck.

After restarting cupsd, the interface (naturally) reports an error, but
the operation requested seems to have been performed (the operations
I tried were adding a new printer and setting it as default).

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2+b1
ii  cups-client            1.5.2-9
ii  cups-common            1.5.2-9
ii  cups-filters           1.0.12-1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.2-9
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.42
ii  dpkg                   1.16.2
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-4
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.31-1
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.31-1
ii  libc6                  2.13-27
ii  libcups2               1.5.2-9
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.2-9
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.2-9
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.2-9
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.2-9
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.5.12-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.7.0-2
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.18-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.28-1.2
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu1
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.7.0-2
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.9~rc3-4
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian0
ii  poppler-utils          0.16.7-3
ii  procps                 1:3.3.2-3
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.28

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.31-1
ii  colord                     0.1.18-1
ii  foomatic-filters           4.0.15-1
ii  ghostscript-cups           9.05~dfsg-4
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint  5.2.7-5

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                                   1.5.2-9
ii  cups-pdf                                   <none>
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db]  20120322-1
ii  hplip                                      3.12.2-1
ii  printer-driver-hpcups                      3.12.2-1
ii  smbclient                                  2:3.6.3-2
ii  udev                                       175-3.1

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: false
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd