Re: get_printer_list_db: Failed to open printer_list.tdb

On 19.04.2026 08:57, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 April 2026 07:45:55 Central European Summer Time Michael Tokarev
> wrote:

>> The logic here is simple: since printer_list.tdb is never created -
>> and we're watching this issue for months, that file isn't there - and
>> everything works fine, - maybe this whole thing isn't needed at all.
> 
> The file is needed, it is a cache for printers on cups. If you have 200 cups
> printers and enumerate them, it takes ~200sec. Without that file you would
> have to wait that time to enumerate printers.

> For home users it isn't an issue if they only have one printer, but there are
> users with 200.

There's no difference if it's needed or not, or how many printers they
have, -- because it can't be created by the current code :)  Even if it
*is* needed (I don't have doubts about that), it is not used.  And since
no one complained so far, maybe it isn't actually *that* needed :)


> If it doesn't log correctly from the beginning, it might not initalize the
> config file.

I dunno if spoolss actually needs to read the config file.

> We had the issue with samba-bgqd it didn't load the config file correctly:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15936

Yes, that's apparently the same here.

..
> Looks how many active developers Samba has and how large the codebase is.

Yes, I understand.

> Report the bug, add the logs and assign it to me.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16060 -- already filed it,
though I can't seem to be able to change assignee there.

Thank you!

/mjt

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