Jan, Thanks for taking an interest. OK, I am on Ubuntu 9.04 (which does not have this Gparted/printer problem) with the printer disconnected, so plugged it in. There were some messages about looking for driver and so on, I cancelled them. Then ran dmesg and got this:
[ 2862.488044] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 2862.660648] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 2862.663278] hub 3-2:1.0: USB hub found [ 2862.666342] hub 3-2:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 2862.945281] usb 3-2.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 [ 2863.083441] usb 3-2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 2863.173369] usb 3-2.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 [ 2863.310528] usb 3-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 2863.339519] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x413C pid 0x5106 [ 2863.339546] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp [ 2864.988685] ppdev0: registered pardevice [ 2865.036260] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice Then I unplugged the USB cable and rebooted with the Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 4, chose option "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer", then plugged in the printer USB cable. Again there were some messages about looking for driver and so on, I cancelled them. Then ran dmesg and got this: [ 359.572016] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 359.745096] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 359.748090] hub 3-2:1.0: USB hub found [ 359.750060] hub 3-2:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 360.029939] usb 3-2.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 [ 360.168052] usb 3-2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 360.249908] usb 3-2.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 [ 360.387010] usb 3-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 360.606947] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x413C pid 0x5106 [ 360.606974] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp Then I went on the System menu I ran Gparted. After a while there was a dialogue box saying that "Sorry, the program "system-config-printer.py" closed unexpectedly. It was the second time this happened to me, but it does not happen every time - i. e. it is not consistently reproducible. One could ask why is Gparted looking for a printer. That error message offered me the possibility to send a report. I said yes. Here it is the new bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422180 Then I rebooted again to reproduce the issue once more. This time around however Gparted froze the PC, and I had to power it off. The cursor would still move but that was it. At the bottom left of the Gparted window there was a message "Scanning all devices", and the progress about was about a third done. It's strange how Gparted seems to be able to freeze the window manager. The moral of the story is that Gparted has frozen my PC as part of running the Karmic install script, and has also frozen my PC if I call if from the Karmic live CD. As I said previously, Gparted in Ubuntu 9.04 works fine on my PC. António -- PC freezes during install caused by Dell A920 printer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413949 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
