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

[Peter De Wachter]

I can answer some of the questions asked in that discussion:

I printed five jobs, three from icedove and two from evince, less than
20 pages in total. In the CUPS admin site I don't see anything odd
(i.e. there no millions of failed jobs listed or anything like that).

Launchpad #890705 and Red Hat #581748 seem unrelated. In those cases,
there seems to have been just one symlink per job printed. Also I've
never had Acrobat Reader installed.

The problem hasn't reoccurred since my original report. I can't reproduce it.


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>