Comment 27 for bug 494141

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Potential issues with the proposed patch:

  - this is a workaround in the smbd job, not a correct fix, which will need to be reverted later.
  - in the (rare) event that a user has stopped smbd manually and then changes runlevels, current upstart will give a weird hang waiting for a second local-filesystems event.
  - if someone has configured a loopback cifs share to be mounted at boot time, their system will hang at boot as a result of this change.

So there is regression potential here from the described change to the smbd job, and I'm not really in favor of this approach. Why has the cups package now gone more than two cycles without being converted to an upstart job, which would fix this properly? Also, why does samba not re-scan for a cups server? That seems like unnecessarily unreliable behavior on samba's part, and something that should be straightforward to fix correctly (and suitable for an SRU).