From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 14:27:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C604716A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:27:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D6E43D48 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:27:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de) Received: from [134.93.180.218] (edda.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD3A300023C for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <431DA742.6030509@mail.uni-mainz.de> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:27:14 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-15?Q?f=FCr_Geophysik?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050829) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-mainz.de Subject: Weird print behaviour in Firefox/Mozilla/Thunderbird and FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:27:42 -0000 Hello. I realize a weird printing behaviour of Thunderbird/Mozilla/Firefox. Whenever I try to print a page the software gets stuck and it takes several minutes before it come back to ask me for the printer. After clicking on the print button it takes again several minutes before the job gets printed. Watching the process via 'top' I can not recognize anything unspecific, but the process (either one of the above mentioned) remains in 'kserel'. I realized this strange behaviour on another machine which is not attached to a network nor has a printer, but viewing the print-preface results in the same stuck behaviour. Hope it is a simple, stupid misconfiguration or anything similar, but two different configs and environments produce the same "stuckness". printing on the specific machines is no problem (using lpd, not CUPS!). In the past I had problems with CUPS, which gets partially installed when using GIMP print. How can I investigate whether the problem is related to a conflict between the traditional BSD lpd (which is used on all of our boexs) and CUPS? Thanks, Oliver