10.6.5 Update Causing CUPS error logs.

Question

Hi,
After updating to OSX 10.6.5. my MacBook Pro has been generating CUPS error logs. I did a post in this forum and in the 10.6 Printer and faxing category. Here's the original post:
Hi,
+I was checking the Logs section in System Profiler and the following log caught my attention. The log is related to CUPS which is (as I understand) the printer manager in OSX. The log looks like this on screen:+
+Note: I had to put parenthesis instead of brackets because the date would otherwise be crossed out. In other words ( )=[ ] in the report.+
error_log:
+Description: Printer Error Log+
+Size: 681 bytes+
+Location: /var/log/cups/error_log+
Recent Comments: *+W(19/Nov/2010:22:34:23-0500) No limit for Validate-Job defined in policy authenticated using Print-Job's policy.+*
+This same error repeats 4 more times and is the only error mentioned in the report. What I would like to know is what is this error about?, Is there a way to correct this?+
+An additional detail is that I haven't installed any printers on this computer since I reinstalled OSX in my machine a 2 weeks ago.+
+Thank you for any assistance in this matter.+
Now, I noticed by looking at the log report date, and the report was created in the same date I installed OSX 10.6.5. Today, I also received a reply to my post in the Print and Fax category of this forum and another user is also having the same issue. His log was also created when he installed the 10.6.5 OSX update, which points that this issue might be occurring in other Macs. What I would like to ask if you are reading this topic, is for you to go into your system profiler and click in the "logs" which is located in the "software" category in the system profiler sidebar. The log name you are looking for is "error_log".
Please post back indicating if this error log appears in your system profiler log section as well. Also check the date the log was created, in my case the log was created on November 19, 2010 which is the same date I installed the 10.6.5 update. If your log does not have entries before November 10, 2010, there's a chance that OSX 10.6.5 is the culprit.
By the way, is there a way to report a bug to Apple? Specifically, for OSX.
Thank You for your assistance and time.

Answer 1

baltwo wrote:
Can't help with the CUPS issue, since it's not occurring here. If you want to report this issue to Apple's engineering, send a bug report or an enhancement request via its Bug Reporter system. To do this, join the Mac Developer Program—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report or enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.
I will register for the developer program tomorrow. Do you know someone who knows about CUPS?, it might be helpful to sort this problem out. Should I take the sledge hammer approach and do a clean reinstall for OSX? Also there's a chance that this problem might be related to Apple portables only, since the other user is having the same issue that I do in a MacBook Pro as well but his MacBook is the 17" inch one but still there might be one common denominator here.
I really hope this thread gets seen by more users in this forum, to see if more information surfaces about this problem.
Anyways, thank you for your assistance.