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

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Probably the only people running Linux systems without cups are the
> DIY distro groups (Arch, gentoo etc.) as I don't think this would have
> been caught in the bigger distros where if I'm not mistaken cups is
> installed by default....

I think you are spot on.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but print-to-file
is available without having cups running, right?  (I'm nowhere near
any of my Linux machines at the moment so I can't test it for myself.)

/M

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