Hello, On Sep 12 12:29 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
Sep 12 12:17:51 nimrodel kernel: hal-cups-autoco[26652]: segfault at 0 ip 0804bdf7 sp bfa9aef0 error 4 in cups-autoconfig[8048000+6000]
Since openSUSE 10.3 we have the new RPM "cups-autoconfig" which contains a utility for auto-configuring USB printers which is triggered by udev/HAL device events. Note that this tool neither comes from the CUPS authors nor is the RPM a sub-package of the cups RPM. It was introduced by our "Desktop" team/department to make printing more convenient in particular for "Desktop" users. By default it disables/enables print queues when udev/HAL events appear that a USB printer is disconnected/connected. Its /etc/cups-autoconfig.conf contains by default: -------------------------------------------------------------- [CUPS] ConfigureNewPrinters=yes DisablePrintersOnRemoval=yes DefaultCUPSPolicy=relaxed Debug=yes -------------------------------------------------------------- It is triggered via /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-cups-autoconfig.fdi which runs /usr/lib/cups-autoconfig/cups-autoconfig which does the actual stuff, see /usr/lib/cups-autoconfig/cups-autoconfig --help (you must run even '--help' as root, otherwise you get errors) Debugging output is in /var/log/cups-autoconfig.log In openSUSE 10.3 it caused problems in particular for HP printers, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334166 but this should be fixed for openSUSE 11.0. In your case it loks more like the usual unreliability of the USB/HAL/whatever system. If you don't like what cups-autoconfig does (i.e. if you prefer that you control the print queues and not whatever automatism), uninstall the cups-autoconfig package and reboot (or restart HAL) to make HAL aware of its changed config files, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218393#c28 For some background information, see http://code.google.com/p/cups-autoconfig/ Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org