Hello all, I am experiencing a lot of trouble with the "add printer" functionality. I am on a large network also, running Maverick 64bits (in French, so the exact translation may be inaccurate) and with latest updates. The "scan for lan printer" option is inactivated. When I click "add new printer", I do not know why, but the dialog get stuck if I wait too long (let say 5/7 sec). It seems that the backend is scanning for the network printer, even if I did not ask to (I know the name of the printer). So what I tried is to add the printer "as fast as I could". I am really not asking for this functionality, but I do not know how to inactivate it. It seems that the dialog scans ALWAYS the network. I give some log below, which shows that the net scanning is experiencing some packet errors. In the next dialog, asking to choose the printer type, same phenomena: get frozen if I wait too long to make my choice (the "looking for drivers" dialog). It seems that the part that freezes the first dialog is still running, and possibly freeze the backend somehow (while I guess the scanning should stop once the printer is chosen). Again I tried to add a generic printer "as fast as I could". And again for the drivers type (say PCL 6e generic). Ok then I have a dummy printer, that I am able to reconfigure somehow. I restarted avahi, same things occur. Here is the log just after restarting avahi. The dialog open during the network exchanges was the "looking for drivers" (I killed it after 30mn). Regards, Raffi Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[896]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[896]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address 2001:660:3013:3:222:19ff:fe16:f040. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[896]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 128.93.24.44. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[896]: avahi-daemon 0.6.27 exiting. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande init: avahi-daemon main process ended, respawning Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 104) and group 'avahi' (GID 109). Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: avahi-daemon 0.6.27 starting up. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Successfully called chroot(). Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address 2001:660:3013:3:222:19ff:fe16:f040. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 128.93.24.44. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Network interface enumeration completed. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Registering new address record for 2001:660:3013:3:222:19ff:fe16:f040 on eth0.*. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Registering new address record for 128.93.24.44 on eth0.IPv4. Nov 25 10:17:24 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'. Nov 25 10:17:25 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Server startup complete. Host name is lavande.local. Local service cookie is 2315924690. Nov 25 10:18:08 lavande hp[18790]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1 Nov 25 10:18:08 lavande python: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1 Nov 25 10:18:23 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host fe80::217:f2ff:fec4:8044. Nov 25 10:18:23 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.15.28. Nov 25 10:18:43 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host fe80::217:f2ff:fec4:8044. Nov 25 10:18:43 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.15.28. Nov 25 10:18:52 lavande kernel: [584818.510646] FIFO write timed out Nov 25 10:20:02 lavande kernel: [584888.511261] parport0: FIFO is stuck Nov 25 10:20:02 lavande kernel: [584888.551257] parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio Nov 25 10:20:12 lavande kernel: [584898.551885] FIFO write timed out Nov 25 10:20:42 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host fe80::217:f2ff:fec4:8044. Nov 25 10:20:42 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.15.28. Nov 25 10:21:11 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.16. Nov 25 10:21:22 lavande kernel: [584968.550009] parport0: FIFO is stuck Nov 25 10:21:22 lavande kernel: [584968.590009] parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio Nov 25 10:21:32 lavande kernel: [584978.600010] FIFO write timed out Nov 25 10:22:42 lavande kernel: [585048.600010] parport0: FIFO is stuck Nov 25 10:22:42 lavande kernel: [585048.640013] parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio Nov 25 10:22:45 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.59. Nov 25 10:22:52 lavande kernel: [585058.650012] FIFO write timed out Nov 25 10:24:02 lavande kernel: [585128.651666] parport0: FIFO is stuck Nov 25 10:24:02 lavande kernel: [585128.691256] parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio Nov 25 10:24:12 lavande kernel: [585138.691259] FIFO write timed out Nov 25 10:25:16 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.60.37 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:16 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 1... Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.23.6 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 2... Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.57.11 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 3... Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.57.6 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 4... Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.57.6 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 5... Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.60.37 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:17 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 6... Nov 25 10:25:18 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.22.125 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:18 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 7... Nov 25 10:25:18 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 8... Nov 25 10:25:18 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.62.64 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:18 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 9... Nov 25 10:25:18 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.23.6 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:18 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 10... Nov 25 10:25:19 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 11... Nov 25 10:25:19 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 12... Nov 25 10:25:19 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.58.36 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:19 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 13... Nov 25 10:25:19 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.58.106 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:19 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 14... Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 15... Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.8.122 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 16... Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.22.80 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 17... Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.57.6 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 18... Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.60.37 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 19... Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.24.44 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 784: mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local retry 20... Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 774: error mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=128.93.24.44 port=5353 Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 780: error timeout mdns lookup ph1112b.inria.fr.local Nov 25 10:25:20 lavande python: io/hpmud/jd.c 864: invalid host ph1112b.inria.fr, check firewall UDP/5353 or try using IP Nov 25 10:25:21 lavande python: hp-makeuri[18952]: error: Device not found Nov 25 10:25:22 lavande kernel: [585208.691884] parport0: FIFO is stuck Nov 25 10:25:22 lavande kernel: [585208.731263] parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio Nov 25 10:25:26 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host fe80::226:bbff:fe6c:c30. Nov 25 10:25:26 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 10.10.10.143. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.19. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.20. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.50. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.70. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.59. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.38. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.40.13. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.10. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.26. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.62. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.49. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.55. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.16. Nov 25 10:25:27 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.15. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.41.105. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.44. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.41.80. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.11. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.71. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.9. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: dbus-protocol.c: Too many objects for client ':1.778', client request failed. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: last message repeated 125 times Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.40. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: dbus-protocol.c: Too many objects for client ':1.778', client request failed. Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: last message repeated 9 times Nov 25 10:25:28 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.68. Nov 25 10:25:29 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.40. Nov 25 10:25:29 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.68. Nov 25 10:25:30 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: dbus-protocol.c: Too many objects for client ':1.779', client request failed. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: last message repeated 142 times Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.40.3. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.245. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.41.68. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.9. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.71. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.44. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.41.80. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.11. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.68. Nov 25 10:25:31 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.40. Nov 25 10:25:32 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.41.68. Nov 25 10:25:32 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.40.3. Nov 25 10:25:32 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.245. Nov 25 10:25:32 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: dbus-protocol.c: Too many objects for client ':1.780', client request failed. Nov 25 10:25:32 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: last message repeated 142 times ... Nov 25 10:45:19 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: last message repeated 160 times Nov 25 10:45:19 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.40.5. Nov 25 10:45:19 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.15.72. Nov 25 10:45:20 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: dbus-protocol.c: Too many objects for client ':1.1369', client request failed. Nov 25 10:45:21 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: last message repeated 161 times Nov 25 10:45:21 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.59. Nov 25 10:45:21 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.71. Nov 25 10:45:21 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.70. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.40.13. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.16. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.57.26. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.15. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.20. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.41.105. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: Invalid response packet from host 128.93.56.19. Nov 25 10:45:22 lavande avahi-daemon[18769]: dbus-protocol.c: Too many objects for client ':1.1370', client request failed.