[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-20 Thread Ed
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 805303 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805303 QT4-QTConfig works for me as well. Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title:

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
Can there be any relationship/dependency between this bug and bug 805303? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt To manage

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
After today's updates I am also suffering this bug, so I did the steps of comment #2. The overloading of the system happens VERY quickly. A top in a terminal window on a remote machine (SSHed in to my laptop) shows that Xorg is quickly using up all memory and taking between 60% and 100% CPU (see

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-15 Thread Jim Patterson
This bug does seem to be a manifestation of [Bug 805303|https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805303]. The fix from that bug works for me. I've installed qt4-config, and used qtconfig to change the style to Motif. Problem gone (though you have to be content with the Motif style)! I can run hp-toolbox

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 805303 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805303 Following comment #5 and #13 of bug 805303 I get the HPLIP GUI tools working again. So this bug seems to be the same as bug 805303. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 805303 Gtk-CRITICAL **:

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-13 Thread Ed
I have the same problem on three different installs on 2 different laptops. Only one install (upgraded from 11.04 does not have the problem. Sudo hp-toolbox returns: *** HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.7) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0 Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-13 Thread Ed
Managed to interrupt hp-toolbox (without sudo). Result: * HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.7) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0 Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt To manage

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
Eric, can you try sudo hp-toolbox Does this work? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt To manage notifications about

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-11 Thread pck
Forgot to mention that my system currently uses the proprietary AMD fglrx driver. With this driver uninstalled, I had problems with Unity and Unity 2D to start up correctly, so I couldn't test hplip with another driver so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-10 Thread pck
I can confirm this issue with 11.10 When starting the HPlip-toolbox, an empty window appears (only the window border) and the system becomes unresponsive. I haven't tried to produce a log file so far, but I found out that the X-server instance seems to require huge amounts of memory. The

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-09-10 Thread Till Kamppeter
It is possible that this is a problem of X or even the video card driver. On my boxes (all with Intel graphics) the problem does not occur. ** Also affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High --

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-08-22 Thread Dave Stroud
I have to do a hard shutdown on my system. See bug # 716555 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt To manage notifications

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-08-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Dave, can you follow the instructions in my comment #2? Eric, Dave, for doing the test which I describe the system must be in a responsive state. If it got unresponsive, shut down and boot it, right after boot, open a terminal window and run the command hp-toolbox -g | tee hp-toolbox.log When

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-08-11 Thread Sarbeswar Meher
HPLIP doesn't support Ubuntu 11.10 yet as it is not released. Please use Ubuntu 11.04 and test whether you're getting the same issue. Thanks, Sarbeswar Meher -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-07-20 Thread Till Kamppeter
** Also affects: hplip Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: hplip (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title:

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-07-20 Thread Till Kamppeter
In a terminal window run the command hp-toolbox -g | tee hp-toolbox.log When the computer has gotten unresponsive, kill hp-toolbox or restart the computer. Attach hp-toolbox.log to this bug report. The command shows the logging also in the terminal window. Does the logging suggest that the

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-07-20 Thread Eric Appleman
I couldn't generate a log or even see if it tried. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt To manage notifications about

[Bug 813230] Re: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt

2011-07-19 Thread Eric Appleman
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