[SLE] Problem with Configure - Printing Manager

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:18:18 -0700 (PDT)
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

hi all,

I have recently migrated to SuSE. I have SuSE 9.1
running on my comp. I am in a research group and I
need to use a network printer that has it's own ip
address.

I tried to configure using the Printers option in
Start menu > Utilities > Printing > Printers. The
first time I invoked this menu the Configure -
Printing Manager window came up and said that it's
'trying to configure the printers', or something
similar to this. I actually had no printers attached
to my computer. This was the first time I invoked. I
clicked on the Add menu in the Printing Manager
window, a wizard came up in which it asked me select
one of the available printer options, but I couldn't
select any of these because everything was in grey and
none of them were active. The forward button was
active, so when I pressed the forward button it
wouldn't go forward, but say that I had to select one
of the options, which I couldn't as none of them was
active. So I closed the wizard using the 'close'
button with the intention of starting all over again.

That's it. After this I tried to invoke the Printing
Manager again from the Start Menu > Utilities > ....
but it's even starting up. It shows up this window
Configure - Printing Manager which doesn't respond to
anything, doesn't even close if use the x button on
the window. When I try to close the window from the
taskbar, it gives me the follwing message:

'Window with title "Configure - Printing Manager" is
not responding. This window belongs to application
kcmshell (PID=6556, hostname=localhost).
Do you wish to terminate this application? (All
unsaved data in this application will be lost.)'

After this I even rebooted system thinking that the
problem would clear up, but to no avail.

Can anyone help in resolving this problem? Not only
with this, but sometimes this kind of thing happens
with someother applications also. Like when I try to
Klipper contents it also hangs like this. I either
have to kill this, or close it like I did above with
the Printing Manager.

It would be nice if someone can tell me what this
cupsd and lp processes that are running in the
background. They come up all of a sudden when I invoke
top. I am in a computational chem. gp. So my comp is
my life blood. These two processes take up a lot of
memory, so what I have been doing is to kill these
processes whenever they come up. Am I harming the
system? Does this have anything to with the above
problem with the Printing Manager?

Sorry for such a long mail. Couldn't help it.

Thanks for any help and patience.

Regards,
Chaitanya.
Indian Inst. of Science, India.
www.iisc.ernet.in

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