Thanks Till for your prompt response! I'm sorry I don't know appropriate ettiquette for inline/attachments here - I have inlined a heap of output: (1) debug output from cups as requested (2) debug output from cups during the print-dialog hang (3) gdb stacktrace of gedit during a print-dialog hang. Hope its ok.
lpstat -p", "lpstat -v" are always fast. lpoptions -p <printer-unresolved-hostname> -l Takes about 5 seconds on an IPP printer (with unresolved hostname). However it returns instantaneously on an SMB printer (with unresolved hostname). IPP Printer: $ time lpoptions -p Laserjet-1300 -l lpoptions: Unable to get PPD file for LaserJet-1300: Not Found real 0m5.024s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.000s And accompanying cups/error_log: D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from localhost (Domain) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] CUPS-Get-Printers D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] CUPS-Get-Classes D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] CUPS-Get-Default D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from localhost (Domain) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/LaserJet-1300 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:22 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:27 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost:631 (IPv4) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:27 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 10 GET /printers/LaserJet-1300.ppd HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:27 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:27 +0700] cupsdSendError: 10 code=404 (Not Found) D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:27 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 10 D [16/Sep/2008:14:33:27 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8 When the hostname is added to /etc/hosts I get the same error message on the IPP queue, but it returns instantaneously. time lpoptions -p Laserjet-1300 -l lpoptions: Unable to get PPD file for LaserJet-1300: Not Found real 0m0.023s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.004s D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from localhost (Domain) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] CUPS-Get-Printers D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] CUPS-Get-Classes D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] CUPS-Get-Default D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from localhost (Domain) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/LaserJet-1300 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost:631 (IPv4) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 10 GET /printers/LaserJet-1300.ppd HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdSendError: 10 code=404 (Not Found) D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 10 D [16/Sep/2008:14:41:37 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8 Here is the cupsd/error_log during when the print dialog hangs: D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from localhost (Domain) D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: clients=1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: jobs=74 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: jobs-active=0 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: printers=6 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: printers-implicit=0 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: stringpool-string-count=1139 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=9360 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=21904 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] CUPS-Get-Printers D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:23 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:33 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:43 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from localhost (Domain) D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:58 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:29:58 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. E [16/Sep/2008:14:30:08 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 IPP Read Error! D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:08 +0700] cupsdSendError: 8 code=400 (Bad Request) D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:08 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from localhost (Domain) D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: clients=1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: jobs=74 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: jobs-active=0 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: printers=6 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: printers-implicit=0 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: stringpool-string-count=1139 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=9360 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=21904 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] CUPS-Get-Printers D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok) D [16/Sep/2008:14:30:28 +0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8 Below is a stack trace of gedit hanging while its print dialog opens, suggesting it all happens inside gtk_cups_request_new (): (gdb) bt #0 0xb7f03410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb73a9273 in read () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7348aed in _IO_file_underflow () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb734925b in _IO_default_uflow () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #4 0xb734a624 in __uflow () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #5 0xb733dcf6 in _IO_getline_info () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #6 0xb733dc41 in _IO_getline () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #7 0xb733cbba in fgets () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #8 0xafddcb8b in ?? () from /lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2 #9 0xafddd352 in _nss_mdns4_minimal_gethostbyname2_r () from /lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2 #10 0xb739e398 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #11 0xb739fad9 in getaddrinfo () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #12 0xaffd6a0a in httpAddrGetList () from /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 #13 0xaffd6088 in httpConnectEncrypt () from /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 #14 0xb00114dc in gtk_cups_request_new () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so #15 0xb000f40c in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so #16 0xb7bc78ce in gtk_printer_request_details () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #17 0xb7bcea6e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #18 0xb74fdaff in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #19 0xb74f0759 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #20 0xb7504f8b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #21 0xb7506c1f in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #22 0xb7506f69 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #23 0xb7b68cb9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #24 0xb7b69621 in gtk_tree_selection_select_path () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #25 0xb7b696d5 in gtk_tree_selection_select_iter () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #26 0xb7bd0a9e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #27 0xb74fd00a in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__OBJECT () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #28 0xb74f0759 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #29 0xb7504f8b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #30 0xb7506c1f in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #31 0xb7506ee0 in g_signal_emit_by_name () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #32 0xb000c468 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so #33 0xb000bb2d in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so #34 0xb746cdd6 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #35 0xb7470193 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #36 0xb7470577 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #37 0xb7a79264 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #38 0x0806841e in main () -- print dialog hangs when connected to wireless network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs