On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Guillaume Brunerie >> <guillaume.brunerie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 2012/8/2 Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@xxxxxxxxx>: >>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Scott Weisman <sweisman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> I should have added more details. I am using OpenBox on an X86_64 install. >>>>> >>>>> Two different systems (desktop and notebook) but otherwise largely similar >>>>> setups. >>>> >>>> I'm also using Chromium in a pure Openbox environment on x86_64, and I >>>> don't see this problem. I notice that the first time I show the print >>>> dialog, cups is started (by systemd's socket activation) if it wasn't >>>> running already. I wonder if the hang comes when cups isn't available? >>>> Do you have it running, or at least available for socket / path >>>> activation if you're on systemd? >>> >>> Indeed, that’s the problem. >>> On my system I also have a pure openbox x86_64 environment but without >>> cups and without systemd (yet), and I noticed the same freeze when >>> pressing Ctrl-P. >>> But then I installed cups and started the daemon and now the print >>> dialog shows immediately and there is no freeze anymore. >>> So a workaround is to install cups and start the daemon at boot. >> >> I was just bitten by this too, and I can confirm it strikes both >> through Ctrl+P and when clicking on "print links". I've searched for >> a bug reported upstream on this, but can't find one, has anyone with a >> stronger goggle-fu had more success finding one? > > Probably the only people running Linux systems without cups are the > DIY distro groups (Arch, gentoo etc.) as I don't think this would have > been caught in the bigger distros where if I'm not mistaken cups is > installed by default.... I think you are spot on. Correct me if I'm wrong, but print-to-file is available without having cups running, right? (I'm nowhere near any of my Linux machines at the moment so I can't test it for myself.) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
