Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

[Brian Potkin]

On Mon 06 Oct 2014 at 19:06:33 +0200, Peter De Wachter wrote:

> After printing a couple of things (using icedove and evince), I noticed my
> laptop became rather sluggish. Turns out that (a) a "scp-dbus-service" Python
> script was using a lot of CPU time, and (b) I had literally millions of
> symlinks in my /tmp directory.
> 
> The symlinks were all of the following form:
> 
> /tmp$ ls -l 5432c4f624457
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 pdewacht pdewacht 29 okt  6 18:36 5432c4f624457 -> /etc/cups/ppd/hp1018local.ppd
> 
> Creation of new symlinks stopped after killing scp-dbus-service, so that
> process seems responsible.
> 
> Afterward I tried to reproduce the problem by printing some more, but nothing
> weird happened.

Hello Peter,

Please take a look at #764472 to see if there is anything there which
helps you to add any further useful information.

Regards,

Brian.