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system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #207395
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 207395

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Constantine Evans (cevans) wrote : system-config-printer hangs for several minutes while loading if network is connected but server is unreachable in particular ways.

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

If a network printer is inaccessible in a way such that dns doesn't fail and the connection isn't refused, system-config-printer hangs for several minutes while starting up or modifying that printer.

For example, if a laptop user has a printer ipp://192.168.1.123, but then tries to use the laptop on another network, system-config-printer will hang while starting up. Similarly, using something like ipp://example.com where example.com isn't actually reachable but does resolve can result in the same behaviour.