cupsd segfault at 0 ip XXX sp YYY error 6 in cupsd[ZZZ+TTT] in RHEL 6.7 and RHEL 7.7
Issue
CUPS is unresponsive. Running a command like "lpadmin -a" results in the message:
#lpadmin -a
lpstat: Service Unavailable
In RHEL 6, the system messages file (/var/log/messages) contains the following entry:
kernel: cupsd[5866]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fc4fced6120 sp 00007fff6ea93a70 error 6 in cupsd[7fc4fce99000+69000]
in RHEL 7, /var/log/messages contains an entry like:
kernel: cupsd[28204]: segfault at 0 ip 00005593d51b1988 sp 00007ffdd823b5b0 error 6 in cupsd[5593d517b000+66000]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.7
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.4.2-72.el6 or earlier in RHEL 6
- CUPS 1.6.3-40.el7 or earlier in RHEL 7
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