Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:12:41 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: mezz@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: linux-opera-9.27.20080331 (Machine freezes when printing) Message-ID: <20080413131241.43f0c28f@mkproductions.org>
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Hi. I'm experiencing a problem when printing with the latest version of linux-opera. When I go to print a job with a clean start of the program, the entire machine will freeze up under certain circumstances. The first job of the Opera session prints perfectly. By first job I mean I start Opera up, print one job, and it comes out properly. However when I go to print something else while still running that same instance of Opera, everything will freeze right as the final "Print" button is clicked. The clock stops, the mouse won't move, any sound playing stutters indefinitely, SSH sessions from other machines into this one freeze up and cannot reconnect, pings to the machine stop responding, etc. I have tried this several times now with slightly different methods. Sometimes the machine just sits there hung up until I do a hard shutdown and other times it has panicked and rebooted itself after a minute or so. I have gotten some output in /var/log/messages on one test and a coredump on another which I will post and explain below[1]. I have tried this with my regular Opera saved session which has lots of tabs open as well as a completely clean "profile" (starting with a new ~/.linux-opera). Each time the first print job of that instance works fine but the second one causes the freeze. I have tried waiting until the first job is completely printed as well as printing one immediately after the other, both result in the freeze on the second job. I have also tried with different pages and it happens on the second job regardless of the page content. The unclean shutdowns have also caused some data loss, mainly just the autosave.win file that I have noticed but it's worth noting. I have Opera setup to print to a "Custom Printer" (CUPS) with the "Printer Program": "/usr/local/bin/lpr" And "Parameter": "-PBrother_HL-5250DN_series_192.168.1.10" I think this is a fairly recent issue as I do not remember it in the past at all. I have been keeping pretty current with my ports as well as updating to the latest RELENG_7 every few weeks. I do know that it wasn't introduced in the very latest version (9.27) as I was experiencing it in 9.26 as well but got caught up in other things for a week or so before being able to test this more and report it. By the time I got to testing, the port was updated to 9.27, which I am running now and can confirm it still happens on. I have tried printing with other applications, both Linux and native, such as Adobe Acrobat (8), Claws Mail, the lpr binary from the command line, etc, and I cannot reproduce the problem with any of them so I don't think it's a general Linux emulation or CUPS problem. I'm not sure what area this problem is so that's why I'm emailing the maintainer and ports@ for now. I am running RELENG_7 and an updated ports tree as of Friday afternoon USA time. Some versions are: linux-opera-9.27.20080331 cups-base-1.3.7_2 FreeBSD amd645200.localhost 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #6: Fri Apr 11 16:37:21 CDT 2008 mixx941@amd645200.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD645200 amd64 I'm willing to help however I can to track the problem down. Thanks in advance, -Mark [1] = http://tntpowerhost.com/mixx941/freebsd/linux-opera_printing_output_1 -- Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941)
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