Bug#861470: cups-client: cupsd not restarted after using cupsctl

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

found 861470 2.2.4-1
thanks


On Sat 29 Apr 2017 at 13:42:57 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:

> cupsctl --debug-logging
> 
> works in that LogLevel in cupsd.conf changes to "debug". However, cupsd
> does not restart and the service enters a failed state. Details at
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2017/04/msg00049.html
> 
> Is this related to CUPS issue #4915?
> 
> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/4915
> 
> After reading
> 
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51774
> 
> I added, with a successful outcome, "Restart=on-failure" to cups.service.

The behaviour also occurs with other cupsctl commands such as
--share-printers. A quick test shows it does not happen when
PID 1 is sysvinit.

I downloaded Ubuntu server 17.04 (cups 2.2.2-1ubuntu1) and
upgraded to artful's cups 2.2.3-2. The bug is present is both
these versions of cups.

Regards,
 
Brian.