system-conf-printer - more info

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

The saga of the hosed cups continues....

I've done the following so far

1. switched off nscd and cups via s-c-services
2. restarted the machine
3. opened a terminal window, su, strace -o print2.txt -f system-config-
printer

As with yesterday, the system ground to a halt (100% processor time,
lots of disc hammering). Unlike yesterday though, instead of a complete
hang, the desktop cleared (nautilus and gnome-panel then restarted,
though all applications I had been running had not been restarted).

strace seems odd. At the start of the 2Mb file, there are piles of
python bits not there (lots of things from /sbin and /usr/lib/python2.3
- such as /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/ltihooks.pyo and ltihooks.so)

Towards the end, it seems that s-c-p is loading the printer information,
but then dies suddenly at the end.

If its any use, I'll tar.bz2 them (both the one from yesterday and from
today) - I would imagine 4.1Mb of text will compress nicely.

TTFN

Paul

-- 
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - and so are we,"
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people - and neither do we." - George W. Bush, Aug 2004

[Jef Spaleta]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:14:32 +0100, Paul <paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk&gt; wrote:
>  strace seems odd. At the start of the 2Mb file, there are piles of
>  python bits not there (lots of things from /sbin and /usr/lib/python2.3
>  - such as /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/ltihooks.pyo and ltihooks.so) 
Do you have any duplicate packages installed?

-jef

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

>  On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:14:32 +0100, Paul
> <paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk&gt; wrote:
>  > strace seems odd. At the start of the 2Mb file, there are piles of
>  > python bits not there (lots of things from /sbin and /usr/lib/python2.3
>  > - such as /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/ltihooks.pyo and ltihooks.so)
>  
>  Do you have any duplicate packages installed? 
Not that I can see

rpm -qa cups
cups 1.1.21-1.rc2.1
rpm -qa perl
perl 5.8.5-4
rpm -qa system-config-printer
system-config-printer-0.6.109-1
rpm -qa python
python-2.3.4-8

This one is starting to get interesting (not!)

TTFN

Paul
-- 
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - and so are we,"
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people - and neither do we." - George W. Bush, Aug 2004

[Jef Spaleta]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:30:57 +0100, Paul <paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk&gt; wrote:
>  Not that I can see 
I would encourage to check the full list of installed rpms for
duplicates instead of hunting for obvious package duplicates one at a
time to save time in the future. The thread "Using hint from MA Young
- find duplicates" in this list has a procedure to look for
duplicates:

rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort >/tmp/example.out
uniq </tmp/example.out | diff - /tmp/example.out

-jef

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

>  rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort >/tmp/example.out
>  uniq </tmp/example.out | diff - /tmp/example.out 
Which reveals...

142a143
>  Canna 
519a521,522
>  gpg-pubkey
>  gpg-pubkey 
704a708,709
>  kernel
>  kernel 
706a712,717
>  kernel-smp
>  kernel-smp
>  kernel-smp
>  kernel-smp
>  kernel-smp
>  kernel-smp 
1352a1364
>  RealPlayer 
1660a1673
>  xerces-j 
Doesn't look like *any* of the printing rpms are duplicated.

TTFN

Paul

-- 
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - and so are we,"
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people - and neither do we." - George W. Bush, Aug 2004