Bugzilla Bug 231430

When I try to change/install a printer via the Web-interface, each step takes
very long time. Then, when you can select the brand of the printer and you
click on the "continue" link, the loading of the next page just takes forever
and never ever loads (after some minutes, Firefox gives a timeout).

The specific printer is connected via LPT.

CUPS isn't crashed because of this. If I just load another page of the
webinterface, it works fine. But even when I click reload at the step when it
never loads the page and Firefox resends the POST-data, it does not work.

acomputer ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.16.19 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16.19 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:31:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16.1-r3, 2.17-r1, 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="candy distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/private"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X X509 a52 aac aalib acl acpi
acpi4linux adns afs agg aiglx alsa amd amuled aqua_theme ares asf asm atm
auctex avahi bash-completion bidi binary binary-drivers bindist bittorrent bl
bonjour bookmarks bootsplash bzip2 bzlib cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr
cdrom cgi clisp codecs corba cracklib crypt cups curl custreloc dbus dedicated
dga dhcp divx4linux dlopen dmi dnd dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread dxr3 eds
encode exif faad fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac flash font-server fortran fpx
freetype ftp galago gcj gcl gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gl glitz glslideshow glut
gnome gprof graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gzip h323 hal haskell howl
howl-compat html httpd iconv imagemagick imap imlib2 insecure-drivers ithreads
jack java jbig jikes jit jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms ldap libcaca libnotify
linuxthreads-tls live lzo mad matroska mbox mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod
mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mod modplug mozbranding mozcalendar mozilla mp2 mp3 mp4
mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer mppe-mppc mudflap multislot musepack
musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses net network njb nls nntp nptl nptlonly
nsplugin nvidia objc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oss pam
pascal pcre pdf php png pop posix ppds pthreads python qt quicktime rar
readline real rogue rplay rtc rtsp ruby samba sasl screen sdl server session
shorten shout silvercity silverxp skins slp sndfile sockets speedo speex spell
sse sse-filters ssl stream subversion svg svga tagwriting tcltk teamarena tetex
tga themes theora threads threadsafe thumbnail tiff transcode truetype type1
unicode urandom usb utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vdr vidix visualization vlm vorbis
win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xatrix xcomposite xext xface
xforms xine xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xrender xscreensaver xsettings xterm
xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zip zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 bt87x"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de"
USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv apm"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

It's a HP printer and I am selecting "HP" at the brand-selection page.

Same problem with cups-1.2.12-r8.

Same problem here with the same cups versions of Albert. This issue has been
also reported upstream, see here:

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2886+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M10+Qhang


Maybe some recent upgrade could have broken something, but... what? *_*

Maybe i've found a (partial solution):

- stop cupsd
- clean /var/cache/cups/* ( # rm -frv /var/cache/cups/* )
- restart cupsd

Try this, and give us some feedback!

Thanks a lot, that solved the problem for me.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Same problem here with the same cups versions of Albert. This issue has been
> also reported upstream, see here:
> 
> http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2886+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M10+Qhang

Added the upstream patch in cups-1.3.8-r1, please test and reopen if that
doesn't fix your problems with Firefox and the CUPS webinterface.