Description of problem: Printing in openoffice, evince causes application to hang. This happens when I have more than 227 printers (using CUPS). If I reduce the number of CUPS printers to below 227, there is NO problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GA version for both How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. In oowriter (or evince), go to file -> print 2. If we have more than 227 printers (I am using CUPS for printing), the print dialog box comes up, but it is blank, and the whole application hangs (freezes). The only way to proceed is to kill the application. 3. Actual results: print dialog comes up but is blank and the whole application hangs. Expected results: I expect the print dialog to come up with all the printers listed in the list box. Additional info: I have reported this bug to openoffice (as I noticed it in openoffice initially), but on further investigation, it seems to happen in evince as well. It seems to be a problem with the gtk2 print dialog (as both these applications uses this for the printing dialog).
Created attachment 155118 [details] Evince crash traces
I can confirm... It makes impossible to print anything with OOo or Evince. I do not know whether others GTK applications are impacted but Gedit works without any problems for instance.
A workaround for the "many printers lock up the cups backend" problem has been included in 2.10.12, which I will build as an FC6 update once F7 is released.
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