Fedora Core 2: cannot add printers / lots of apps hang

From: WoMbah (wombah_at_zazoozah.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:43:23 -0400

Hello there,

I just went from a fully working FC1 to FC2 and I tried to add a printer
using:

1. system-config-printer-gui: this app just hangs.

2.system-config-printer-tui:

Initializing alchemist edit environment ...
Initializing linux printing database ...

I can add printers, but cannot print a test
page. As soon as I make a change, it just hangs. I tried to print from
within an application, but that fails.

3. http://127.0.0.1:631 --> no go. It hangs for ages when I try to add a
printer this way.

Oh, something else: I can not launch OpenOffice Writer: it too just hangs
and I have to ctrl-alt-backspace ... Mozilla-1.6 also hangs after being
launched.

Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Robert