[arch-general] CUPS : can't get driver list since last update

[Mike Cloaked]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 2:28 PM, SET <nmset at netcourrier.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When installing a new printer via cups's web interface, the process blocks
> with an error message close to 'can't get driver list'. At the same time,
> cupsd and foomatic processes consume 25% CPU resources each. This is
> reproducible on two different hosts.
>
> Downgrading cups and/or cups-filters yields the same result.
>
> Some printers stop working with the error message 'filter failed'.
>
> Cups seems broken since last upgrade (today on one host, 2 or 3 weeks
> before
> on the second host).
>
> Please consider a fix.
>
> Thx.
>

Possibly related to the longish running thread at
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189261

-- 
mike c