Thanks to all who replied on this thread.<br><br>I've re-installed my OS and learned how to overcome my installation problems and everything is working fine.<br><br>I've come to the conclusion that the problem was not related to either wine or cups.
<br><br>As I mentioned in one of the threads, it was a fresh install of FC5. The install didn't go smoothly and I was originally only able to get it to complete if I selected only the base install. I later installed the other software that I wanted using Apt.
<br><br>After posting my problems with wine, I discovered that I was having other problems which were always related to connecting to a listening server. I was able to connect to the cups Web admin interface via Web browser, but a process would hang when I tried to connect to the server another way. Other problems included the RedHat Graphical Boot not working and not being able to connect to the freeciv game server (a very important problem ... LOL).
<br><br>I don't see how the RHGB might've been related, but I believe that my original installation probably left me with some corrupt libraries. Specifically, I suspect that freeciv client, Firefox printing, and wine all use the same library to connect to a listening server on a certain port and that was corrupt. I haven't verified this and I can't reproduce the problems. Everything's working now :)
<br><br>Thanks,<br> Vince<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vincente Aggrippino</b> <<a href="mailto:vaggrippino@gmail.com">vaggrippino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>I'm using a fresh install of Fedora Core 5 with the RPM install of Wine 0.9.12.<br><br>When I run winecfg, it says "<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">wine: creating configuration directory '/home/vince/.wine'...
</span></font>" as I expect it to. Following that is many lines of "Font metrics" progress with a few "<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">fixme:font</span></font>" messages.
<br><br>Nothing seems too unusual. But, when it gets to "<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Font metrics: 100.0% done</span></font>", it just hangs there forever.<br><br>If anyone knows what might be happening or some troubleshooting steps I could try, I would be very grateful.
<br><br><ul><li>A directory that looks like a <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">.wine</span> directory is created, but the directory name is suffixed with a dash and a seemingly random string. For example:
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">.wine-d7DD26</span></li><li>The following processes seem to be related:<br><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
vince 11532 11529 0 00:08 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/../bin/wineprefixcreate --quiet --wait --prefix /home/vince/.wine-d7DD26</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
vince 11552 1 0 00:08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/../bin/wineserver</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">vince 11549 11532 0 00:08 pts/1 00:00:00
rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 wine.inf </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">vince 11529 11226 0 00:08 pts/1 00:00:00 /usr/lib/../bin/wine-pthread
winecfg.exe</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></font></li><li>If I use <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">strace -p 11549</span>, in this case, the system call it's hung on is "<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
recv(12, </span>". I don't know if this is helpful at all.</li></ul>Thanks to anyone who can help.<br><br>-- Vince Aggrippino<br>
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