If cupsd is disabled, opening a file in OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 (Not tested on -bin) will cause the program to freeze for roughly a minute while it waits for it's connection attempt to time out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd stop 2. Start OpenOffice.org and open a file 3. Watch it freeze Actual Results: It freezes for at least a minute. Expected Results: It should just open the file normally. A little amateur diagnosis using gdb seems to indicate that OpenOffice.org attempts to enumerate the available printers on document load. On Linux, that means a call to cupsd. Apparently, without resetting the timeout to something sane for the situation. While it's a minor bug, I suggest warning the users since it's quite frustrating for someone who doesn't realize that connection. According to eix, my OpenOffice.org was compiled with USE="cairo cups dbus firefox gtk kde ldap linguas_en odk pam sound webdav".
Upstream issues go to http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/ooQA-ReportBugs.html - not to Gentoo Bugzilla.
Noted. I'll mark the bug RESO UPSTREAM as soon as I've got a bug entry to link to. Also, I suspect this problem is also dependant on the fact that, as I just remembered, I'm running a default-DROP iptables setup, so I'll check that out too.
Please add a bug number here if you got one, still: UPSTREAM
Looks probable that it's a variant of this entry in the OOo issue tracker: (Issue 81541) http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81541
