KDE print dialog freezes for minutes (I use cups)

wbsoft

Hi, my printer management dialog (in kcontrol) hangs many minutes while fetching printer data from cupsd. After that it spits out:

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

Here it is working OK. Check that you have your hostname in /etc/hosts.

You can also try emerging kdelibs and kdebase again.

As for dj400, I had no special problems with it, and it worked out of the box.
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wbsoft · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject:

wbsoft · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 9:45 pm Post subject:

Well, strange enough kprinter et al work ok when I'm offline (i have a pppd dial-up account) but not when I'm online.

Could it be that I have a not-officially-existent fqdn in /etc/hostname?

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

Why not just try and see what happens :?:

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wbsoft · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 9:15 am Post subject:

Well, no matter what I try (removing access permissions from /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, removing ~/.kde/share/config/kreprintrc etc), kprinter dialog comes up fine, and shows the default cups printer, but clicking 'Properties' causes the dialog to hang for 3 to 5 minutes. Then the properties dialog appears finally, with the correct options.

Also the kcontrol printmgr hangs as soon as I select the printer from the list. That one hangs infinitely.

The cups webinterface and commandline works, so it is a problem between KDEprint and cups

I think KDEprint should handle these things better, its really putting me off with kde+cups. (Maybe I should go back to apsfilter+lprng)

darge0flex · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 93

@wbsoft: i have the same problem. Did it work for you now?

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darge0flex · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 93

IT WORKS NOW!!! I've just changed my /etc/hosts from

yardbird · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 689 Location: nl.leiden

Hi,

kdeprint used to freeze on my box too. I found out that this happens when kde is compiled with the '-funroll-loops' flag (this was a known bug in kde 3.0.3 - don't know if this was fixed in 3.0.4). Crashes happen quite randomly (for example when trying to print konq segfaults, while koffice does not)
Hope this helps.....

wbsoft · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 6:24 am Post subject:

Great!! Well I switched to lprng + apsfilter, so I will try later .. :-)

drowwen · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 22

Hi !

It's not sufficient to include your FQDN in /etc/hosts !

The FQDN do have to match the one in your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

molander

j3pup · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

This post worked to keep my kdeprint dialog from hanging. Here is what it took....
I added the Winchester.localdomain part to /etc/hosts

latch.r · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 38 Location: Ulm, Germany

I don't use KDE, but was having a similar problem. Whenever I went to File->Print in the menu of various programs (Gnumeric, Evince, Firefox, ...) the program would just hang. Even trying to use lpr on the command line wouldn't work, but printing a test page from the CUPS admin did work.

Strangely, stopping my network (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop) fixed the problem. However, my printer was a network printer and so this prevented me from being able to print.

I found this thread (what do you search for with a problem like that?), and it made me think of the ServerName setting in the CUPS config. It triggered my memory - months ago I had changed it while I was trying to get printing working on a different network.

I went into /etc/cups/client.conf and commented out my ServerName entry, and its fixed the problem. It might be worth checking this if you have a similar problem.