[arch-general] chromium crash when print dialog is invoked

[Auguste Pop]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Guillaume Brunerie
> <guillaume.brunerie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/8/2 Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com>:
>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Scott Weisman <sweisman at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> I should have added more details. I am using OpenBox on an X86_64 install.
>>>>
>>>> Two different systems (desktop and notebook) but otherwise largely similar
>>>> setups.
>>>
>>> I'm also using Chromium in a pure Openbox environment on x86_64, and I
>>> don't see this problem. I notice that the first time I show the print
>>> dialog, cups is started (by systemd's socket activation) if it wasn't
>>> running already. I wonder if the hang comes when cups isn't available?
>>> Do you have it running, or at least available for socket / path
>>> activation if you're on systemd?
>>
>> Indeed, that’s the problem.
>> On my system I also have a pure openbox x86_64 environment but without
>> cups and without systemd (yet), and I noticed the same freeze when
>> pressing Ctrl-P.
>> But then I installed cups and started the daemon and now the print
>> dialog shows immediately and there is no freeze anymore.
>> So a workaround is to install cups and start the daemon at boot.
>
> I was just bitten by this too, and I can confirm it strikes both
> through Ctrl+P and when clicking on "print links".  I've searched for
> a bug reported upstream on this, but can't find one, has anyone with a
> stronger goggle-fu had more success finding one?
>
> /M
>
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using xfce without cups installed. same problem here.