From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1 Description of problem: When switching on or switching off the usb printer (an Epson Stylus C64), some foomatic processes start and run for at least 2 minutes (my pc is and old PIII/700 MHz). As I can see the processes are: - foomatic-configure - foomatic-combo-xml - foomatic-ppdfile - printconf-tui - printconf-backend It seems that all this activity is started by /etc/hotplug/usb.agent Worse, every time I switch on the printer, all printer defined with cups web frontend are overwritten. I disabled cups-config-daemon service but the behavior above didn't change. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): foomatic-3.0.2-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch the top command 1. Switch on an USB printer. 2. See foomatic processes running Actual Results: A lot of cpu and disk activity, cups configuration broken Expected Results: A faster hot plug management. CUPS configured printers untouched. Additional info:
Don't use the cups frontend to configure your printers. You need to use system-config-printer. I plan on working on the printing infrastructure next week and will backport those changes to FC3. You can stop the printers from updating for now by removing the add and remove printer scripts (/etc/hal/device.d/printer_remove.hal, /etc/hal/capability.d/printer_update.hal).
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Fedora Core 3 is not maintained anymore. Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the current Fedora release please reopen this bug and assign it to the corresponding Fedora version.