On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Dan Halbert <halbert at everyzing.com> wrote: > I have never been able to get cups to work properly since CentOS 4.x (and am > now on 5.2). > > When I try to "service start cups", cupsd immediately starts taking 100% of > the cpu. Attaching strace to it shows no system calls happening. I have > tried uninstalling and reinstalling cups to get fresh config files. My > printers.conf is empty. > > This is on a completely updated x86_64 CentOS 5.2 desktop system running > gnome. There are no local printers attached the the box. We have a couple of > networked HP printers and a Canon. I have not added any of these printers to > the configuration. A lot of Googling has not turned up any help. Have you > seen this problem? Any suggestions? Is that a problem with the 64 bit version of CUPS? There is no problem with the 32 bit version of CUPS. I have it running on my desktop, without any problems. And, it runs on GNOME without any problems. Will the 32 bit version of CUPS run on your box? cupsd (pid 2232) is running...