cups hangs after a few seconds of starting.

nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 618

Hi all,

When I start cupsd, it stops responding to anything after the first few seconds. i.e. it keeps the browser waiting when i try to access it's web-interface, kprinter hangs. Any help.

/etc/hosts looks like

MacGyver031 · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:

Hello,
Do you have Kernel > 2.6.6? If so, I do have the same problem. I have tracked the whole thing down to parallelport driver. If it is not compiled, then CUPS starts without problem. Kernel 2.6.5 and less does not have the parallelport problem.
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Joanand K.

MacBook Pro 5.1: 2.4GHz Core2 Duo, 4096MB, 500GB, NVidia 9400/9600 M GT
Gentoo, Kernel 3.4.9, XOrg, Fluxbox.

nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 618

i am using 2.6.7-gentoo-r9. I tried disabling parallel port support, still the same problem. Any other idea? In my case .. cupsd starts, but, it just doesn't respond to anything after couple of seconds of starting.

Ateo · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject:

Try this:

In /etc/hosts:

nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 618

thanks for helping brothers, i appreciate it. but, still same issue. works for the first 10-15 seconds of restart .. then goes down ...

Ateo · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:40 am Post subject:

Is this a parallel or USB printer? This has not yet been established on this thread.

If a parallel printer, try dropping down to a 2.6.6. kernel at least to verify whether it's the kernel's parallel port driver or not.

I do know for fact that USB printing works fine with a 2.6.7 kernel, at least on my system... But this might be irrelevant..

Beholders_Eye · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know of a solution? Is it a kernel issue? This bug is persecuting me for months already. It's happening since gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5 probably, I'll test with vanilla-sources.

Any guidance here is very welcome :-)

. I'm a bit desperate ;-)

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