Bug 799595

Summary: cups-polld stops working
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla>
Component: cupsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: cups-1.5.2-6.fc17 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Pierre Ossman 2012-03-03 10:05:37 UTC
Since my upgrade from F14 to F16, cups-polld starting getting very unreliable. Every time I try to use the printer it's supposed to poll for, I find it missing. Restarting cups fixes thing, but some time later the problem is back again.

I have this in cupsd.conf:

BrowsePoll 10.8.3.26


And this is what I get in error_log:

E [03/Mar/2012:10:59:06 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:10:59:36 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:00:06 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:00:36 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:01:06 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:01:36 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:02:06 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:02:36 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:03:06 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success
E [03/Mar/2012:11:03:36 +0100] [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Success


tcpdump shows nothing, so it isn't even trying to poll the other server. This is what an strace of cups-polld gives:

write(2, "ERROR: [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631"..., 68) = 68
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({30, 0}, 0x7fffbded5fa0)      = 0
write(2, "ERROR: [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631"..., 68) = 68
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({30, 0}, 0x7fffbded5fa0)      = 0
write(2, "ERROR: [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631"..., 68) = 68
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({30, 0}, 0x7fffbded5fa0)      = 0
write(2, "ERROR: [cups-polld 10.8.3.26:631"..., 68) = 68
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({30, 0},


This is a laptop so it might be networks going up and down, or suspend, that's breaking it.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2012-03-05 13:17:47 UTC
The fix for this has already been checked in.  When there is a test update you'll see a comment about it here.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-03-14 17:03:21 UTC
cups-1.5.2-6.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cups-1.5.2-6.fc17

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-03-14 17:09:42 UTC
cups-1.5.2-6.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cups-1.5.2-6.fc16

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-03-16 02:41:28 UTC
Package cups-1.5.2-6.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cups-1.5.2-6.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-3811/cups-1.5.2-6.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-03-24 00:26:04 UTC
cups-1.5.2-6.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-04-12 03:39:07 UTC
cups-1.5.2-6.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.