[Bug 304393] Re: cups: 127.0.0.1:631 - Address already in use.

[D J Gardner]

Re: #32
  Cups and other processes expect to be able to assign their configured ports,  But rpcbind / portmap etc. assign ports randomly.
e.g.: http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_13.html

This bug has just hit me, with a deadline to print and no way to reboot the computer without losing work.
It took a lot of debugging before I stumbled upon the article above, and I've been using linux since it came on two floppies. The problem has been noted in redhat, suse, even BSD.

I propose a solution: rpcbind should NOT assign random ports, it should assign random *unallocated* ports (i.e. it should
make a list of things listed in /etc/services and avoid those ports.)

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  cups: 127.0.0.1:631 - Address already in use.

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