On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:08:31PM -0400, Hugh Campbell wrote: > Very occasionally, when I print a document under KDE, the KDE print > dialog will appear, but there will be no printers defined in the > appropriate drop-down buttons, etc. The blank dialog just sits > there frozen, unable to even be closed. It seems like it can't read > its own configuration and gets stuck. Actually, whenever you launch a print dialog like the KDE one, it connects to the CUPS server and requests a list of printers so that it can fill in that drop-down list of them. So this is likely just the exact same issue as the server itself freezing. Sorry I can't help with the problem itself, but at least I can offer some assurance that you really do have one problem, not two. ;) You may wish to run an "strace -f -p <pid>" on the CUPS server, and see what system call it's blocking on when it does freeze.
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