kde cannot print

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I've built the last several kde's, currently running 3.2.3 on an 
athlon with half a gig of ram, and a 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 kernel with fedora 
FC1 installed by upgrade from rh8.

No kde app can access my printers (2, usb, epsons), which work 
flawlessly with mozilla, gimp, and from the cli.

Any attempt to access the print system results in the app, and its 
parent, doing a silent segfault and quit, leaving no trails in any of 
the logs that I've found.  This includes the normal launcher bar at 
the bottom of the screen, which will go away in about 1.5 seconds 
just from hovering the mouse over the print manager text line in the  
kde pullup menu, which will cause the lower bar with the pager, 
clock, kde's main icon, etc to go away, which of course requires an X 
restart to restore it.

I tried to print earlier this evening from kwrite, after saving the 
message first, and kwrite and the popopen print controller window 
both went away, with the popopen for the printer controller gui only 
partially drawn on screen.

This condition has prevailed for at least a year, over many different 
kernels and kde versions since 3.1.1a.  The printing system is cups & 
gimp-print, 1.1.20 and 4.2.6pre1, foomatic is not installed.

As it leaves no trail in the logs when this occurs, and strace doesn't 
seem to be able to follow the various forks done even with the follow 
forks option enabled, how do the kde people suggest I go about 
getting a peephole open to see whats going on?

I know just enough C to be dangerous, and no C++ at all.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
Maurice E. Heskett,
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