Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:44:08 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnumeric no longer starts Message-ID: <1078893847.40160.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20040305222811.4864C5D08@ptavv.es.net> References: <20040305222811.4864C5D08@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-/rFSxn8vko8zbz4DWH+D Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 17:28, Kevin Oberman wrote: > For the past week I have been unable to get gnumeric to start, even with > a blank sheet. After poking at it a while, I discovered that it is > connecting to the lpd daemon on my systems and hanging with the daemon > running at about 6 or 7% of the CPU forever. If I kill lpd, gnumeric > comes up! >=20 > Any idea what gnumeric is doing that causes it to connect to the daemon? >=20 > An important issue (and the more likely source of the problem) is that I > run LPRng (ports/sysutils/LPRng) on my systems. I suspect hat this is > causing the problem, but it is SUPPOSED to be fully compatible at the > socket layer with the standard lpd. A new version went into ports last > week and that is almost certainly when the trouble began. >=20 > N.B. I don't really think that this is a gnome issue. I'm just hoping > for a clue to lead me in the right direction to troubleshoot this. truss or strace might give you a clue as to why. However, I would poke around the libgnomeprint code to see what it's looking for when it connects to lpd. Joe >=20 > Thanks, --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-/rFSxn8vko8zbz4DWH+D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBATp0Xb2iPiv4Uz4cRAmQxAKCuLeswrGocRCAFcGEYNZ6kzH5joACdEUDk rSzelXRt2JPUikjLJXA7utI= =nbuc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/rFSxn8vko8zbz4DWH+D--
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