Hello, On Nov 19 09:02 Peter Taylor wrote (shortened):
My kernal (k_athlon) is patched to 2.4.20-100 using the SuSE patch. ... My printer is an HP Deskjet 612C. It was working earlier, but I don't use it much, and don't know when it stopped working. ... I tried to reconfigure it using YaST ... Once I got as far as getting a dialog box that said, "Initializing CUPS server (2%)" before it hung.
During startup of YaST it does rccups restart and then YaST waits up to 15 minutes for the cupsd to become accessible for clients by using something like for i in $(seq 900) do lpstat -r &>/dev/null && break sleep 1 done lpstat -r &>/dev/null and this is when the dialog box above is shown. The progress bar would reach 100% only when the 15 minutes are over. Normally it is finished after one or two minutes. See the Administration manual section "Troubleshooting in CUPS" how to get verbose log entries in /var/log/cups/error_log You may do rccups stop mv /var/log/cups/error_log /var/log/cups/error_log.old and then set "LogLevel debug" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf rccups start and see what is in /var/log/cups/error_log
OpenOffice also hangs, and it used to work, too.
Does it hang when printing (because there is no cupsd running) or does it hang in general? If it hangs in general then I guess it may be a kernel problem. In any case I recommend to do a test with a standard SUSE kernel from the CDs - at least to make sure it is not your patched kernel. Regards Johannes Meixner ----------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90429 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ -----------------------------------------------------------