Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this problem. For me and all the others
here at Mandrake CUPS runs perfectly.
What platform are you using? How much memory do you have? What version
of Mandrake Linux?
Till
Eugenio Diaz wrote:
>
> The web interface stalls when I go to configure a printer. I can create
> it and modify it, but I can't configure it. When this happens the
> processes "cups" and "admin.cgi" take most of the cpu time for about 20
> seconds.
>
> After checking the error log I get something like this:
> -----------------
> I [14/Oct/2000:08:14:39 -0500] New printer 'Main' added by 'root'.
> E [14/Oct/2000:08:15:14 -0500] PID 20913 crashed on signal 9!
> -----------------
>
> When I tried to run the cgi's from "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/", manually on
> a shell, I get mixed results:
>
> 1. "admin.cgi" and "jobs.cgi" *always* run fine and spit out the
> expected HTML code.
>
> 2. "printers.cgi" and "classes.cgi" core dump with a segfault after
> spiting some HTML code, but only if a printer exists; if I delete all
> printers, they do not segfault, and spit out HTML code.
>
> I have tried doing ltrace and strace of it, but I did not got to far.
> Only found out that it dies after/on a strcasecmp() call for the
> hostname. The results are attached.
>
> I have tried by removing the cups packages completely, and any files
> left after package removal, but had no luck.
>
> The problem started after I upgraded to a later version (don't remember
> which), but here it what I have now:
> -----------------
> [root@fulgore:~]# rpm -qa|egrep '^cups|^ghost'|sort
> cups-1.1.3-13mdk
> cups-devel-1.1.3-13mdk
> cups-drivers-0.3.6-25mdk
> ghostscript-5.50-31mdk
> ghostscript-fonts-5.50-5mdk
> ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-31mdk
> ghostscript-module-X-5.50-31mdk
> ghostscript-utils-5.50-31mdk
> [root@fulgore:~]#
> -----------------
> [root@fulgore:~]# for i in `rpm -qa|egrep '^cups|^ghost'|sort`;do rpm
> -Vv $i;done
> S.5....T c /etc/cups/printers.conf
> ......G. /var/spool/cups
> [root@fulgore:~]#
> -----------------
>
> Anybody has any ideas on how to debug this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
