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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:58:35 +0100
From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] cupsd crashes when Avahi is used
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Thanks, I have added your answer to the bug report now.

   Till


On 12/05/2013 07:48 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Till,
> 
> Based on the bug report, it sounds like this is an internal bug of Avahi.
> 
> The fact that a production build of a library is forcing an assert is troubling - it doesn't allow the caller to perform any recovery and IMHO makes Avahi totally unsuited to production use at all.
> 
> The fix on the CUPS side is easy - bundle mDNSResponder (Apache license) with Ubuntu and build CUPS against it.  For Avahi, we'll need to get someone from Avahi to look at the issue...
> 
> 
> On Dec 5, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> at Ubuntu many users (> 2000) hit the following bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1131854
>>
>> It is an assert failure in a function of the Avahi library which makes
>> the CUPS daemon abort, naturally only if CUPS uses Avahi which is the
>> case in Ubuntu.
>>
>> The Ubuntu patches on CUPS do not change anything in the Avahi support,
>> so the problem most probably also occurs with other distributions.
>>
>> Anyone has already observed this problem? Can it be a CUPS bug? If it is
>> an Avahi bug, is it already known?
>>
>>   Till
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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