Re: Gnumeric hangs.....sometimes

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:19:44PM -0400, Josh Knox wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Running the latest version of gnumeric. Love it.
>
> One issue that's come up lately is quite aggravating however.
>
> When I start gnumeric it seems to hang, consuming 100% of the CPU. The
> application never displays, but its process eats away at the CPU til I
> kill it.
>
> Yesterday, and this morning it started fine. Now a few hours later it's
> back to hangin' out.
>
> I'm running Slackware 9(current) with gnome 2.4.
>
> Any ideas???

uuuhhhh. not really.
Try starting it in gdb and then manually breaking to see what its
doing.  My only guess would be more gnome-print breakage.  We've had
a few reports of things hanging at startup as gnome-print goes to
cups which goes out over the net for some printer info that
never returns.