F7 Cups idling at booting

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Jun 27 13:56:06 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 27 June 2007, antonio montagnani wrote:
>2007/6/26, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>:
>> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:32 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
>> > When I start my laptop, during booting, when the system arrives at
>> > Cups service start-up, it stays idling for one or two minutes - I
>> > didn't check with my clock anyway :-) - for sure it is much longer
>> > than other services.
>> > Where shall I look??
>>
>> It sounds like a name resolution is taking a long time.  Things to
>> check:
>>
>>  * /etc/hosts
>
>This is my /etc/host file:
>
># Do not remove the following line, or various programs
># that require network functionality will fail.
>
>::1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

? where is your ipv4 address?  Should it also be there?  If not, do you have 
all the ipv6 stuffs enabled?

>>  * the ServerName directive in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf -- this defaults to
>> the server's hostname if not present
>
>This is my cupsd.conf file
>#
># "$Id: cupsd.conf.in 5454 2006-04-23 21:46:38Z mike $"
>#
>#   Sample configuration file for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
>#   scheduler.  See "man cupsd.conf" for a complete description of this
>#   file.
>#
>
># Log general information in error_log - change "info" to "debug" for
># troubleshooting...
>LogLevel info
>
># Administrator user group...
>SystemGroup sys root
>
># Only listen for connections from the local machine.
>Listen localhost:631
>Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
>
># Show shared printers on the local network.
>Browsing On
>BrowseOrder allow,deny
># (Change '@LOCAL' to 'ALL' if using directed broadcasts from another
> subnet.) BrowseAllow @LOCAL
>
># Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
>DefaultAuthType Basic
>
># Restrict access to the server...
><Location />
>  Order allow,deny
>  Allow localhost
></Location>
>
># Restrict access to the admin pages...
><Location /admin>
>  Encryption Required
>  Order allow,deny
>  Allow localhost
></Location>
>
># Restrict access to configuration files...
><Location /admin/conf>
>  AuthType Basic
>  Require user @SYSTEM
>  Order allow,deny
>  Allow localhost
></Location>
>
># Set the default printer/job policies...
><Policy default>
>  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an adminstrator...
>  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job
>Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription
>Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job
>Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
>    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
>
>  # All administration operations require an adminstrator to authenticate...
>  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Set-Printer-Attributes
>Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job
>Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer
>Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer
>Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Add-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer
>CUPS-Add-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs
>CUPS-Set-Default>
>    AuthType Basic
>    Require user @SYSTEM
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
>
>  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
>  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
>    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
>
>  <Limit All>
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
></Policy>
>
>#
># End of "$Id: cupsd.conf.in 5454 2006-04-23 21:46:38Z mike $".
>#
>
>>  * does this command take ages too?: host "$(hostname)"
>
>Computer has the name MAXDATA but if I issue
>$ host maxdata
>
>I get
>
>Host maxdata not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

I believe its case sensitive.

>while if I issue  host localhost
>I get immediately
>localhost has address 127.0.0.1
>
>
>
>If I restart CUPS service, it restarts in a breeze
>
>Tnx for help
>--
>Antonio Montagnani
>Skype : antoniomontag



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