Ian, this looks like bug #68022 you reported before. 20 seconds or more is a lot, on a 5 year old machine it should be less than 10 seconds. I assume you are not using that old hardware.
On my 5 year old computer (Athlon XP 1700+ 1500 MHz) with Feisty it takes: $ time lpinfo -m > /dev/null real 0m7.295s user 0m0.328s sys 0m0.104s Can you provide the output of the following commands to know how long it takes and which foomatic database and PPD packages you have installed: $ time lpinfo -m > /dev/null $ dpkg -l 'foomatic-db*' '*ppd*' 'cupsys-driver*' | grep ii I had the same issue in Edgy a while ago. It took several minutes to load the list of printer models. After removing the cache file /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat it loaded much faster, from minutes to 7 seconds in gnome-cups-manager and double that (14 s) when adding a printer through cups web interface. Michael Sweet comments: WRT to the ppds.dat file, if you ever had a pre-1.2 version of CUPS installed, the ppds.dat format *did* change. It might be worthwhile to delete this file when a package is deleted or upgraded in case cups-driverd doesn't detect the format change... Anyways, deleting the cache file will force a full re-scan of the PPDs... -- gnome-cups-add takes ages to load https://launchpad.net/bugs/94218 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
