Bug#764253: system-config-printer: Creates millions of ppd symlinks

[Peter De Wachter]

Package: system-config-printer
Version: 1.4.3-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After printing a couple of things (using icedove and evince), I noticed my
laptop became rather sluggish. Turns out that (a) a "scp-dbus-service" Python
script was using a lot of CPU time, and (b) I had literally millions of
symlinks in my /tmp directory.

The symlinks were all of the following form:

/tmp$ ls -l 5432c4f624457
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pdewacht pdewacht 29 okt  6 18:36 5432c4f624457 -> /etc/cups/ppd/hp1018local.ppd

Creation of new symlinks stopped after killing scp-dbus-service, so that
process seems responsible.

Afterward I tried to reproduce the problem by printing some more, but nothing
weird happened.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages system-config-printer depends on:
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0       2.30.8-1+b1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0            1.42.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0             3.14.1-1
ii  gir1.2-notify-0.7          0.7.6-2
ii  gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0  1.0.0-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0           1.36.8-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  python-cairo               1.8.8-1+b2
ii  python-cups                1.9.63-1
ii  python-cupshelpers         1.4.3-4
ii  python-dbus                1.2.0-2+b3
ii  python-gi                  3.14.0-1
ii  python-gobject-2           2.28.6-12+b1
ii  python-libxml2             2.9.1+dfsg1-4
pn  python:any                 <none>

Versions of packages system-config-printer recommends:
ii  cups-pk-helper              0.2.5-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0     3.12.0-1
ii  python-smbc                 1.0.15.3-0.1
ii  system-config-printer-udev  1.4.3-4

Versions of packages system-config-printer suggests:
pn  python-gnomekeyring  <none>
pn  sessioninstaller     <none>

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