"Print" in systemsettings hangs at "Initializing manager..."

[RChickenMan]

Whenever I try to add my printer by clicking on "print" in the system settings, the "Initializing manager..." window pops up and just sits there, it never gets past that. I eventually have to kill the process. Consequently, I am unable to set up my printer. Can anyone offer any ideas?

[ItaloIvo]

Re: "Print" in systemsettings hangs at "Initializing manager..."

i'm having the same problem anyone know how to solve it?

[RChickenMan]

Re: "Print" in systemsettings hangs at "Initializing manager..."

Please?

[RChickenMan]

Re: "Print" in systemsettings hangs at "Initializing manager..."

When I tried the Dapper live cd, the print manager worked great! So I figured, yay, a solution, so I upgraded my distro to dapper, and no... still hangs. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone could help me out here. I have to re-boot into windows just to print things. What a pain.

[askrieger]

Re: "Print" in systemsettings hangs at "Initializing manager..."

Try going into a konsole and typing "kdesu kcontrol". That's the old, non-kubuntu-ized version of the KDE configuration utility. A lot of people like it better. In this case, it might work where system settings doesn't. I can't be sure of that because system settings doesn't fail for me.

[RChickenMan]

Re: "Print" in systemsettings hangs at "Initializing manager..."

I installed GNOME (just out of curiosity) and all of the printing stuff worked just fine there. I mean, I wasn't able to successfully print out a page or anything, but I was at least able to configure the printers and such. I figured maybe if I was able to configure the printer in GNOME I would be able to go back to KDE and use the printers I added, but whenever I try to print in any application, it hangs!

[herring]

Re: "Print" in systemsettings hangs at "Initializing manager..."

Try going into a konsole and typing "kdesu kcontrol". That's the old, non-kubuntu-ized version of the KDE configuration utility. A lot of people like it better. In this case, it might work where system settings doesn't. I can't be sure of that because system settings doesn't fail for me.

No, it brings up basically the same window in a different format. Still get "initializing manager..." and kcontrol is locked up, so the only way out is to kill the process. In my case, the printer is on another (linux) computer on my home network, and when my kubuntu machine is booted into windows, I can print fine.