"lpstat" Hangs When CUPS is Disabled in RHEL
Issue
The command "lpstat -p" hangs. The output of strace on that command shows the following looping over and over:
sendto(4, "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nContent-Length:"..., 134, 0, NULL, 0) = 134
sendto(4, "\1\1@\2\0\0\0\1\1G\0\22attributes-charset\0\5"..., 416, 0, NULL, 0) = 416
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
recvfrom(4, "", 2048, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0
close(4) = 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
setsockopt(4, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = 0
After starting CUPS, the "lpstat -p" command returns "lpstat: No destinations added." as expected, since no printers are configured. However, we need to disable CUPS for security purposes.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), all versions
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), all versions
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