gnumeric no longer starts

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 17:28, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> For the past week I have been unable to get gnumeric to start, even with
> a blank sheet. After poking at it a while, I discovered that it is
> connecting to the lpd daemon on my systems and hanging with the daemon
> running at about 6 or 7% of the CPU forever. If I kill lpd, gnumeric
> comes up!
> 
> Any idea what gnumeric is doing that causes it to connect to the daemon?
> 
> An important issue (and the more likely source of the problem) is that I
> run LPRng (ports/sysutils/LPRng) on my systems. I suspect hat this is
> causing the problem, but it is SUPPOSED to be fully compatible at the
> socket layer with the standard lpd. A new version went into ports last
> week and that is almost certainly when the trouble began.
> 
> N.B. I don't really think that this is a gnome issue. I'm just hoping
> for a clue to lead me in the right direction to troubleshoot this.

truss or strace might give you a clue as to why.  However, I would poke
around the libgnomeprint code to see what it's looking for when it
connects to lpd.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
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