cupsd segfaults when hit with HUP by logrotate

[Ken Yap]

Binary package hint: cups

Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

cups:
  Installed: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.4.1-5ubuntu2 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

cupsd would die every morning about the same time and need to be restarted. Doing a search revealed this upstream bug from Debian. The trigger was logrotate.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549050

My workaround was to change the force-reload in the logrotate config to restart.

[Ken Yap (ken-yap-deactivatedaccount)]

1.4.1-5ubuntu2.2 seems to have fixed the bug on my machine. Can other please verify?

[Ken Yap (ken-yap-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry posted too soon. The bug still exists in 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.2.

[bogstad (bogstad)]

As well as 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.4

Linux HOSTNAMEHERE 2.6.31-21-generic-pae #59-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 24 08:47:55 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Does this bug still exist in 12.04 or newer?

[Ken Yap (ken-yap-deactivatedaccount)]

Well Debian has fixed it upstream so check if later versions of Ubuntu are using the fixed packages, I suppose.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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