[SOLVED] Apps freeze when i try to wirelessly print from this laptop

kclive18 · 2008-05-29 13:58:26

I have an HP Zv6000 running arch that is about 2 1/2 years old, and I have shared the printer on my main desktop so that the laptop can print wirelessly (the desktop also runs arch). The problem is, when I try to print from the laptop, Openoffice stops responding. This also happens on certain other dialogs, especially when I am trying to change stuff in the Options dialog. I am also unable to print from other applications. I really don't know what the problem is here. I have the printer's driver installed on the laptop and the usblp module loaded.

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kclive18 · 2008-05-29 16:10:02

Sorry for the double-posting, but I uninstalled and installed CUPS on both client and server, and followed the Linux to Linux printer sharing configuration posted on the arch wiki. This laptop still freezes whenever I try to print anything except for a test page from the CUPS web interface. So it must be config-related and the problem HAS to be on my laptop, since my server can print just fine. Does anyone know what the problem is? I've been trying for hours and nothing's wanting to work for me.

EDIT: I tried running soffice from the terminal and I looked for any output. This is what I got:

[ken@myhost ~]$ soffice
libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering

Nothing really related to printing here. Also, running gedit from terminal gave me no output whatsoever when it froze. Weird...:|

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gnud · 2008-05-29 17:56:49

What do you mean, freeze? As in crash?

LTSmash · 2008-05-29 18:17:00

Is your user in the video group?
That may solve the output of OO.org.

iBertus · 2008-05-29 19:04:44

Can you give some additional information about the printer you are trying to use and the driver. This may help in debug some of the configuration issues.

kclive18 · 2008-05-30 01:50:18

It is an HP Photosmart C3150 All-in-one. The laptop has Radeon Xpress mobility 200M graphics.

I added my normal user to the video group and the freezing problem still persists (but I don't get any erroneous output so yay )

EDIT: I am using the open-source ati driver rather than the proprietary. Could that be part of it? I don't really use the laptop for any heavy rendering or 3D work, just basic stuff, so that's why the open source driver.

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kclive18 · 2008-06-07 16:36:32

Sorry for double-posting, but I am getting some output running soffice from the terminal, either as normal user or as root:

Warning, xpress200 detected.

Other apps such as gedit also still crash when I try to print, and OO will crash on other instances too, such as when I try to change options or create new text styles.

kclive18 · 2008-06-14 00:09:37

I tried the proprietary ATI driver and the issue didn't go away. I even resorted to vesa, and it happened yet again. So now we know that this is not graphics-related.

kclive18 · 2008-06-14 14:03:29

Looks like no one cares or no one knows...probably the former.

Anyways, I did reinstall all of gnome, including the extras, and this still did not fix the problem, even in vesa. Has anyone else experienced this issue with GNOME? I'm pretty sure this is GNOME/GTK related because the changing of the video driver does not alleviate the problem. I have posted on the GNOME mailing list so hopefully they will know more about this problem.

tigrmesh · 2008-06-14 16:01:22

Try connecting your laptop with an ethernet cable then trying to print. If you still have problems, then you know the problem is with gnome, if not then it's in your wireless somehow.

kclive18 · 2008-06-17 11:56:31

No, ethernet made no difference, either through networkmanager or the standard network daemon. Is there a way I can share a printer thru SSH? That may work better, as I am already sharing files with my iMac via sshfs.

EDIT: Later on today I may try recompiling the kernel; this could be a kernel issue.

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ExxonValdeez · 2008-06-18 22:58:54

Did recompiling the kernel work for you? I am also having the same problem. And in addition to gedit and openoffice, evince refuses to print. I recompiled gedit, but to no avail.

kclive18 · 2008-06-20 12:07:16

Nope, recompiling the kernel did not work. Maybe I should switch to a different DE, probably KDE, since that is not GTK, and this problem is most likely GTK-related (although I don't have this problem on my desktop that runs Arch/GNOME). What are your system specs, Exxon? Is it a laptop that you are having this issue on?

kclive18 · 2008-06-21 18:06:53

Instead of using the CUPS web interface to configure everything, I am starting over and configuring the sharing the way that the wiki says to do so. Maybe the dialog isn't showing up because I have the sharing configured the wrong way, and my laptop isn't picking up any printers.

EDIT: Whenever I try to ping, traceroute, or telnet my server from my laptop by its supposed DNS name, "kensx2", it takes me to an IP of 24.28.193.9, which obviously not my server's IP of 192.168.1.2. How do I set up my server so that its hostname registers on the network as "kensx2"?

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Tenken · 2008-06-21 18:47:01

In the rc.conf file there is a line for you to put your host name, and if you use static ips you should also add it to /etc/hosts in this format

127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost kensx2
192.168.1.2   kensx2   kensx2

kclive18 · 2008-06-22 20:15:27

I use DHCP, so you're saying I don't have to add the second line there to /etc/hosts?

I have messed around with the /etc/hosts files on both the laptop client and the desktop server and have gotten them to recognize each other's hostnames perfectly. The only problem is that I get a 403 Forbidden error when I try to test print from the laptop via the CUPS interface and the terminal. The freezing problem, of course, still persists.

kclive18 · 2008-06-24 03:16:39

I solved the problem by reserving an IP for my CUPS server PC and adding that as an entry in the client's /etc/hosts file. Now everything works perfectly. Thanks for all your help, guys!

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