Comment 26 for bug 112803

I have changed the status of this bug back to "Confirmed" from "Fixed Released" because I'm still seeing it after updating my Feisty to cupsys_1.2.11-2ubuntu1. (Pascal De Vuyst asked in bug 118356 that we put comments in this bug report instead of one of the duplicates, but it doesn't make sense to add confirming comments to a closed bug, so I'm reopening it.)

Last night I upgraded our Edubuntu Feisty server to 1.2.11 per the instructions above. No problems on the compile. But this morning cupsys stopped and began filling /etc/var/cups/error_log as others have reported. I caught it at 11 GB, but past experience says it was on its way to filling the partition.

Here are the first few lines of the cups error_log:

E [07/Jun/2007:11:37:03 +0300] PID 14024 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops) stopped with status 24!
E [07/Jun/2007:11:37:03 +0300] PID 14025 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd) stopped with status 24!
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:01 +0300] Unable to create job status pipes - Too many open files.
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:32 +0300] Unable to create job status pipes - Too many open files.
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:33 +0300] Unable to accept client connection - Too many open files.
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:33 +0300] Unable to accept client connection - Too many open files.
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:33 +0300] Unable to accept client connection - Too many open files.
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:33 +0300] Unable to accept client connection - Too many open files.
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:33 +0300] Unable to accept client connection - Too many open files.
E [07/Jun/2007:11:38:33 +0300] Unable to accept client connection - Too many open files.

The last line repeats for the rest of the file at several hundred KB per minute.

I forgot to do an lsof while cups was dead. The next time it dies, I will do it. Is there any other information that would be helpful for troubleshooting?

Thanks for looking into this.