Comment 35 for bug 292791

I would like to add, I also experienced this bug today. Everything was working nicely and I tried to change the halftoning setting for my printer via the CUPS HTTP admin interface. CUPS crashed, and I was unable to access any samba shares. When I attempted to login via SSH, I got prompted for my username and password, and then putty complained that the connection was closed unexpectedly by the server.

Logging in locally would not work either, it was stuck in a loop like this:
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Ubuntu 8.10 hinata tty1
hinata login: <entered username>
password: <entered password>

Ubuntu 8.10 hinata tty1
hinata login: <-- back here again, no errors
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No errors in log files or anything. Thank you very much to those that have posted comments alongside this bug report, with your help I was able to get my system working again. I rebooted and hit ESC to get a GRUB menu, chose recovery mode and root console. I then entered:

cp /etc/samba/smb.conf ~
apt-get autoremove cups --purge
apt-get autoremove samba --purge
apt-get autoremove samba-common --purge
shutdown -r now

I was able to login upon reboot and then reinstall samba and copy my config file back. I had to readd my password using smbpasswd but it's working. Am I brave enough to try CUPS yet....?