FreeBSD Port: linux-opera-9.27.20080331 (Machine freezes when printing)

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:12:41 -0500, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org>  
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm experiencing a problem when printing with the latest version of
> linux-opera. When I go to print a job with a clean start of the
> program, the entire machine will freeze up under certain circumstances.
>
> The first job of the Opera session prints perfectly. By first job I
> mean I start Opera up, print one job, and it comes out properly.
> However when I go to print something else while still running that same
> instance of Opera, everything will freeze right as the final "Print"
> button is clicked.
>
> The clock stops, the mouse won't move, any sound playing stutters
> indefinitely, SSH sessions from other machines into this one freeze up
> and cannot reconnect, pings to the machine stop responding, etc. I have
> tried this several times now with slightly different methods. Sometimes
> the machine just sits there hung up until I do a hard shutdown and
> other times it has panicked and rebooted itself after a minute or so. I
> have gotten some output in /var/log/messages on one test and a coredump
> on another which I will post and explain below[1].
>
> I have tried this with my regular Opera saved session which has lots of
> tabs open as well as a completely clean "profile" (starting with a new
> ~/.linux-opera). Each time the first print job of that instance works
> fine but the second one causes the freeze. I have tried waiting until
> the first job is completely printed as well as printing one immediately
> after the other, both result in the freeze on the second job. I have
> also tried with different pages and it happens on the second job
> regardless of the page content. The unclean shutdowns have also caused
> some data loss, mainly just the autosave.win file that I have noticed
> but it's worth noting.
>
> I have Opera setup to print to a "Custom Printer" (CUPS) with the
> "Printer Program": "/usr/local/bin/lpr"
>
> And "Parameter": "-PBrother_HL-5250DN_series_192.168.1.10"
>
> I think this is a fairly recent issue as I do not remember it in the
> past at all. I have been keeping pretty current with my ports as well
> as updating to the latest RELENG_7 every few weeks. I do know that it
> wasn't introduced in the very latest version (9.27) as I was
> experiencing it in 9.26 as well but got caught up in other things for a
> week or so before being able to test this more and report it. By the
> time I got to testing, the port was updated to 9.27, which I am running
> now and can confirm it still happens on.
>
> I have tried printing with other applications, both Linux and native,
> such as Adobe Acrobat (8), Claws Mail, the lpr binary from the command
> line, etc, and I cannot reproduce the problem with any of them so I
> don't think it's a general Linux emulation or CUPS problem. I'm not
> sure what area this problem is so that's why I'm emailing the
> maintainer and ports@ for now.
>
> I am running RELENG_7 and an updated ports tree as of Friday afternoon
> USA time. Some versions are:
>
> linux-opera-9.27.20080331
> cups-base-1.3.7_2
>
> FreeBSD amd645200.localhost 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #6: Fri Apr
> 11 16:37:21 CDT 2008
> mixx941 at amd645200.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD645200  amd64
>
> I'm willing to help however I can to track the problem down.

Right now, I don't have printer. I don't know how to help you. Try to run  
'linux-opera -debughelp' and try to use one of debug option to see if it  
helps you to find something wrong with linux-opera.

> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Mark
>
> [1] =
> http://tntpowerhost.com/mixx941/freebsd/linux-opera_printing_output_1

This one best send to freebsd-stable at .

Cheers,
Mezz


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