cupsd hangs when HP or Kyocera Mita printer is added with web interface

The error_log indicating a authentication problem.

I forgot to mention I'm using:

Dapper 20060303
cupsys 1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu2

I found out that the hanging occurs only when selecting a Manufacturer that has a space character inside the name, e.g. "HP (HPLIP)" and "Kyocera Mita".

A simple workaround is to replace "HP (HPLIP)" by "HP(HPLIP)" (without space) with following command:
$ sudo sed -i 's/HP (HPLIP)/HP(HPLIP)/' /usr/share/ppd/hplip/*

So it seems CUPS has difficulties handling spaces inside Manufacturer names.

I am seeing this behaviour too. cupsd uses 100% CPU, strace shows repeatedly:

select(1024, [0 1 6 7 8 9], [7], NULL, {1, 0}) = 1 (out [7], left {1, 0})
time(NULL) = 1143159140

The fact that the HPLIP drivers appear with a manufacturer name that's not HP also seems to break with USB manufacturer detection - I'm only showed a list of "HP" printers, which doesn't include my printer, which is in the HP (HPLIP) pseudo-manufacturer. The solution to both might be to merge the HPLIP printers into HP.

is this a duplicate from #32085, isn't it?

the manufacturer names (HP und Kyocera) are fixed with recent foomatic-* updates (20060414).

I'm using dapper 20060416.
Reopening this bug since it still occurs when adding "Kyocera Mita" printer after recent updates. This manufacturer has a space in the name causing cupsd to hang. This is a cups issue as reported upstream here: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1567+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+Q.

linuxprinting.org-ppds still contains ppds with manufacturer indication "Kyocera Mita".

Fixed upstream, will import the fix soon.

Fixed in my local version, awaiting UVF exception approval.

Unfortunately upstream's patch brought some regression; I backed out the change until this is resolved.

Fixed the reason (g-c-m regression) for holding back the patch:

 gnome-cups-manager (0.31-1.1ubuntu8) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * Add debian/patches/get-ppds-attrs.patch:
     - libgnomecups/gnome-cups-ui-driver.c, ppd_request(): Do not use
       gnome_cups_request_add_requested_attributes() to select only particular
       attributes; this libgnomecups operation seems to not work any more with
       current cups (which is why cups' svn 5438 fix had to be reverted). With
       this patch, we can finally fix LP#33545.
     - This will now send about three attributes we are not interested in, but
       this is negligible compared to the > 3000 attributes we get from the
       PPDs.

Will upload fixed cupsys soon.

 cupsys (1.2.0-0ubuntu5) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * Remove debian/patches/56_revert_svn_5438.dpatch: The reason for this
     reversion has now been fixed in gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu8. This
     fixes the handling of spaces in manufacturer names. Closes: LP#33545

I'm trying to add HP 660C, using both KDE or web admin UIs without success: in the last step it just hangs and cupsd starts to hog 100% CPU.

Maybe my problem is related to this bug?

Running edgy with cups-1.2.4-2ubuntu3.

@Gustavo
It is highly unlikely that your problem is related to this bug since this problem was fixed before dapper release, please open a separate bug report for your problem and provide the output of the printingbug info script. The printingbug info script can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript.

Pascal,

Sorry for not replying earlier, but my problem was actually related to #47892. :-(