cups-browsed generates constant and significant network traffic
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups-filters (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu freshly updated to 16.04. Whenever cups-browsed is running, it generates around 1 to 1.5 Mbps of incoming traffic, in regular spikes of 2.5Mbps. The cups log shows messages like this every few seconds:
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These are al remote printers that are on different Ubuntu 14.04 servers.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: cups-browsed 1.8.2-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Mar 21 12:54:49 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-23 (422 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
MachineType: LENOVO 20266
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
Error: command ['fgrep', '-H', '*NickName', '/etc/cups/
grep: /etc/cups/
grep: /etc/cups/
grep: /etc/cups/
grep: /etc/cups/
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: cups-filters
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-21 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/25/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 76CN35WW
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: Yoga2
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: 31900058STD
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.name: 20266
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
Please follow the instructions in the section "CUPS error_log" on https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/DebuggingPr intingProblems. Thanks.