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List:       freedesktop-avahi
Subject:    Re: [avahi] I would like to report a bug in Avahi
From:       Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-10-08 21:20:43
Message-ID: 507343AB.3030901 () gmail ! com
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Seems that I succeeded to fix the bug by applying the patch from

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html

But anyway, I am grateful if the site could be fixed so that I can 
register and report bugs.

    Till

On 10/08/2012 08:33 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> [ Resending to the mailing list ]
>
> Hi,
>
> I am Till Kamppeter, leader of OpenPrinting (www.openprinting.org) and
> also responsible for the printing subsystem in Ubuntu.
>
> The printing system CUPS uses Avahi to broadcast information about
> shared printers using the Bonjour protocol. It uses this method
> exclusively from version 1.6.x on. This makes avahi-daemon an essential
> part for printing in Linux.
>
> I have reported the following bug to Ubuntu:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1059286
>    avahi-daemon takes 100% CPU right after boot and at every restart of
>    CUPS
>
> Due to lack of expertise at Ubuntu/Canonical I got no answer of a Ubuntu
> developer working on this bug.
>
> I wanted to report it on your Trac system on www.avahi.org, but the
> sirte is broken. Instead of the main navigation bar only an error
> message "Error: Failed to load processor TracNav, No macro or processor
> named 'TracNav' found" appears (with both Firefox and Chromium on Ubuntu
> 12.10). There is also not the "Register" button at the upper right, as
> told in the Wiki page
>
> http://www.avahi.org/wiki/AvahiCommunity
>
> So I could not register and report the bug. Can you fix the site or
> register me manually?
>
> Or is there somewhere a new site?
>
> Or can you have a look at the Ubuntu bug report and work with me on a
> solution communication via the Ubuntu bug report?
>
> The problem is that when one has a CUPS server with many queues (I have
> 18) the the registering of the printers at Avahi causes the Avahi daemon
> to fall into an infinite loop. It is really an infinite loop, it is not
> flooded by CUPS nore by other processes. I can stop CUPS and stop the
> network and avahi-daemon stays in the infinite loop until getting killed.
>
>     Till

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