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

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

control -1 reassign python-cups 1.9.48-1
severity -1 serious
affects -1 cups
affects -1 system-config-printer
thanks

Le dimanche, 8 avril 2012 01.30:38, Shai Berger a écrit :
> 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).

I just encountered this bug on a fresh Wheezy, it makes system-config-printer 
unuseable. 

As far as I could investigate, this is a bug of python-cups, affecting both 
cups and system-config-printer. It also makes system-config-printer unuseable 
as is under Wheezy, then hereby marking as serious.

Cheers, OdyX