Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 12007
Starting Openoffice with CUPS and a printer over a network.
Last modified: 2003-03-14 10:37:36 UTC
When OpenOffice is configured to use a printer using CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), restarting OpenOffice while the remote print server is not present causes OpenOffice to wait for a very long time (5-10 min) before it opens. This has been tested under Redhat Linux 8.0 on several different workstations.
moving to component gsl
cp->pl: Can we change the popen() to osl processes and 'fix' the problem with Tinos (not yet integrated) osl_joinProcessWithTimeout() ? (though we'd end up with no print queue). We at least have to take this into account when doing a cups implementation. Please go for Beta2 if you see a chance to get this resolved
I think this cannot be our problem; every application that uses CUPS has that same problem, so it should be fixed in CUPS.
IMHO timouting the CUPS command is not an alternative as it leaves OOo without a queue to print to. 5 minutes timeout on CUPS side is a little long, so perhaps they should shorten it a bit.
closed