it crawls

[Michael Goffioul]

Jiri Barton wrote:
> 
> I have a problem with the kdeprinting module; whenever I open up a dialog via
> Print... from any KDE app (e.g. kate, konqueror), it shows up and waits there
> for about a couple of minutes as if searching for all available printers or
> whatever. It just doesn't get repainted for the whole time. Then, I am able
> to make the selections to all the options that are there just immediately.
> When I press the button Properties..., I am to wait several minutes before
> the Properties dialog appears. Again, when I commence the printing, I should
> wait other about five minutes till it starts printing and the printing itself
> is slow (this might be a separate problem)
> 
> Now, the details:
> The printer I'm trying to print is on a Win2k machine.
> 
> CUPS is okay, since I can use all the command-line tools with almost no delay.
> I can print cupsdoprint whatever.ps and it's okay.
> 
> HP LaserJet 1220, Foomatic + Postscript
> Linux Mandrake (cooker), KDE CVS head
> Celeron 375Mhz, 256MB RAM, 10Mbs LAN
> 
> Now, I looked at the following logs during the delay
> tcdump
> ~/.xsession-errors
> /var/log/syslog
> /var/log/messages
> /var/log/cups/error_log (with cups LogLevel debug)
> 
> but none of them bear any sign of error or slow down.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?

It seems to be a recurrent problem (see the KDE bug tracking system,
several similar problems were reported), but unfortunately I have never
able to reproduce it on my test systems (network-connected computer,
and home computer without network).
Recently, someone found a workaround on his system, maybe this can
work for you as well. Open the KDEPrint Options dialog, for example
from the print dialog -> System Options. Go to the "CUPS Server"
options and check the "Use anonymous access" box.

See full mail at:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48900

If this solves the problem, please let me know.

Michael.

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