Bug 72879 – libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui 2.8.1 totally hang many apps

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark R. Pariente 2004-11-29 19:10:48 UTC]

(~x86) Upgraded to libgnomeprint 2.8.1 and libgnomeprintui 2.8.1, rebooted, to find out that these applications:

- gnumeric
- scalc (ximian openoffice spreadsheet)

wouldn't even start. (Hang with 100% cpu usage). Any other gnome application will start, but will hang (100% cpu, nonresponsive) when "Print preview" is selected (ie. gedit).

I don't have any printers, cups or lpr init scripts are not on my default runlevel. I have verified the problem to be related with cups with strace, the hanged applications hangs with an infinite loop of BROKEN_PIPE error in a write to 127.0.0.1, POST method HTTP call with Content-Type: application/ipp. cups related system calls are invoked before this infinite loop.

Downgrading libgnomeprint + ui to 2.8.0 and rebooting resolves the problem, no hangs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge libgnomeprint 2.8.1 and libgnomeprintui 2.8.1
2. reboot
3. start gnumeric

Actual Results:  
gnumeric hangs, 100% cpu usage.

Expected Results:  
gnumeric starts.

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.9-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf
/etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apm artworkextra avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd
dvdr eds encode esd evo f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad
mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nntp nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga
tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xine xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Mark R. Pariente 2004-12-07 23:01:20 UTC]

Ok, apparently its my fault. emerge'ing libgnomeprint with USE="-cups" fixed the issue. Not a wise idea to have cups in USE flags when not running cupsd I guess.

[Comment 2 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2004-12-08 01:11:48 UTC]

Sorry I didn't comment here earlier, I did try to reproduce this on both a ppc and an x86 machine with no luck. I even had USE="cups" and cups not running.

Sorry about this.