[nmglug] Mozilla apps freeze on print

[BrianO'Keefe]

Lots of info to absorb for my pathetic brain but....
I can print from some apps, like OpenOffice, though it choked at least
once but seems fine now. Abiword froze too.  I am printing to file also,
or at least trying to, but again, as soon as I pick print from the file
menu the app freezes. Happens in Thunderbird too. I just noticed it in
Evolution also. Tried OpenOffice and it will print to file from the menu.

An interesting problem!
Thanks again

Nick Frost wrote:
> Nick Frost wrote:
>
>   
>> Hmmm.  No obvious problem there (some of the "not 
>> founds...ld.so.nohwcap" are normal)
>>     
>
> Brian;
>
> I need more sleep...upon further review, I see a couple potential 
> problems with the strace output, the gist of which is that I think an 
> Edgy Etch update might've eaten or mangled parts of your CUPS 
> installation.  But, though I've used Ubuntu, it's not a distro I use 
> frequently, so if there's a resident Ubuntu/CUPS expert lurking here on 
> NMGLUG, please chime in.
>
> 1) On my system when I do;
>
> lpr -Php1320 sample-file.ps
>
> part of the result is;
>
> connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/cups/cups.sock"}, 26) = 0
>
> file /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> /var/run/cups/cups.sock: socket
>
> which mean "0" (successful connection to cups socket), and when checked 
> with "file" command the cups.sock file exists and, as expected, is a socket.
>
> on your system (from your strace output);
>
> stat64("/var/run/cups/cups.sock", 0x7fe9ec70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
> or directory).
>
> So, I'm wondering where your CUPS socket went or if it lives somewhere 
> else on your distro?
>
> Can you print at all (from CUPS web interface on port 631 or command line?)?
>
> 2) I don't see a file open statement for the sample postscript file that 
> you are trying to print (if you need a sample file, this one should do
> http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~netinfo/notes/chap1/samplepostscript.html)
>
> so, I'm wondering if CUPS is even getting that far?
>
> One of the drastic measures would be to choose all CUPS related packages 
> in Synaptic and choose "upgrade", but it depends on how anxious you are 
> to get CUPS working again. Further diagnosis may yield a less intrusive 
> solution.
>
> -Nick
>
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