CUPS broken ?

[Marcel Janssen]

On Monday 10 September 2007, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 18:48 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > I don't see any errors, dialogs are just stuck forever, probably trying
> > to connect without anyone thinking of programming a timeout or so....
>
> Are you using KDE on an x86_64 machine by any chance?

Yes.

> Those symptoms sound very much like the ones in this bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250840
>
> Also:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230979
> which I reported back in March.

It looks like the same issue.
I solved it by removing cups completely (including all configuration files) 
and install it again. Than system-config-printer would let me configure the 
printer correctly.
My guess is that it is related to some settings in the configuration.

regards,
Marcel