Re: gnumeric is inexplicably broken on my machine: Now working

[Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan acm org>]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:33, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:24, Alan E Davis wrote:
> > Gnumeric is now working---again, inexplicably!  The only difference 
> > I can see is I am using icewm.  I haven't upgraded any packages.
> >
> > Alan Davis
>
> This is consistent with the libcupsys problem that cups hangs when the
> printer server does not respond.

The cups problem can bite you in unexpected ways - until you think about
it.

I had configured cups on my laptop to pick up printers from the cups
server, adding "ServerName foo.bar.no" to /etc/cups/client.conf.

Fine when in the office, but when I was traveling, gnumeric wouldn't
start. Because the cups server wasn't accessible from outside.

Actually, after a while it gave up trying and timed out. But that was
after *I* had lost patience and given up.

Jon Kåre