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FS#18893 - [cups] Slow certificate creation, cups appears "frozen"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Johansson (nullvoid) - Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 11:48 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 14 August 2010, 21:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

When printing from a Windows machine using Samba, CUPS needs a proper certificate installed in /etc/cups/ssl/. If no certificates are present, it will generate a new self signed certificate. This process does not use any PRNG and requires a lot of entropy from the kernel which takes time to collect. During the time the certificate is generated, which may range from a few minutes to hours, cups appears frozen and will not respond on the web interface and will not print either.

I myself had a huge issue with finding out what the problem was. I kept reinstalling cups and was confused in why I was unable to print.

This can probably be solved by having the post-install script generating a certificate using OpenSSL.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 14 August 2010, 21:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  added a install msg for this to svn for the next build. any other manual cert creation with openssl is less safe.
Comment by David Johansson (nullvoid) - Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 11:49 GMT
The entire BBS conversation can be found at:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93100

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