I am running KDE 2.1 with cups-1.1.6, kups-1.1-4mdk, qtcups-2.1-7mdk. I have an Epson Color Stylus 600. I can startup and testprint from kups as superuser/root but if I try this as a user, kups freezes up and bogs down my whole system - kpm indicates in the neighborhood of 99% CPU usage. This goes on indefinitely. It also shows a process, "lpr -lpd" also consuming 99% of my CPU (of course, two apps cannot be both using 99% of my CPU). The only way to unfreeze kups is to kill the "lpr -lpd" process. If I try to print from any kde app (konqueror, kmail), the app will freeze up and slow my system down in the same way that kups does. In no case is a printout EVER produced. Also, the print job never show up in the printer queue. Not in kups (which is frozen of course) nor does it show up in kups if I am running it as root and try to print from kmail or konqueror as a user. If I do an "lpq" from the CLI as well, nothing ever appears in the queue. I only have the one printer so there is only the one queue. It only ever show a queued print job if I do the CLI printing of a postscript file. As a user I CAN print from the CLI using the "lpr <some postscript file>" without any problems. I have tried both the foomatic+stccolor, foomatic, foomatic + gimp-print, as well as various versions of gimp-print available to me in the driver list. As root, again, I have no problem printing test pages from kups with these drivers, but as user... -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. --
