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
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:14:32 +0100, Paul paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk 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
Hi,
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:14:32 +0100, Paul paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk 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
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:30:57 +0100, Paul paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk 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
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