Description of problem: The system-config-printer applet is filling up $HOME/tmp with tens of thousands of links to a printer PPD file per second. This rapidly makes tmp unuseable (searching a directory of size .5GB takes forever). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):1.3.9-3.mga2 How reproducible:always Steps to Reproduce: 1.logon and go into KDE. 2.print a file 3.tmp file fills up with links to the PPD file I was having my system slow down and firefox take 15 min to open. I found that the home tmp file directory was at .5 GB (Ie the size listed in ls -ld tmp was .5GB) which made many things hopeless to run. (eg netscape took 25 or 20 min to open). ls on tmp just hung for 10s of minutes with the disk light on constantly. I finally discovered that if I started up in KDE, (with an empty tmp) everything was fine until the first time I printed, and then links (13 hex digits long starting with 5) would be created at a rate or tens of thousands per second. I finally found that if I killed python /usr/share/system-config-printer/scp-dbus-service.py this link creation would stop. ( and now would not resume) I do not know python and thus cannot figure out what is doing this, but it clearly makes the machine pretty useless quickly. The directory entries are soft links to /etc/cups/ppd/CQ-east-2.ppd which is not even the default printer. (the default is CQ.ppd, although both point to the same printer.)
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD