[nmglug] Mozilla apps freeze on print

[Nick Frost]

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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