On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:24 -0400, Frank Griffin wrote:
> Ben Popatopalous wrote:
> > [...] Now every time I reboot printerdrake runs, tries to
> > install already installed packages, and ends with 'Cannot install
> > cups' even though cups is installed. [...]
> This is happening in cooker in general, and has nothing to do with your
> printer model.

I saw in /var/log/messages,
Jul 15 18:20:22 dell printerdrake[7190]: running: /bin/rpm -q --qf
%{name} task-printing-server cups foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine
foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters gutenprint-cups gutenprint-foomatic
hplip-model-data nmap scli webfetch foomatic-db-engine gutenprint-gimp2
desktop-printing

and indeed, instaling those packages made the error message go away.
Although I don't have any printer needing hplip or hpijs.

My GNOME session now finishes with the splash box, displays my desktop
background, and then does nothing more, so that I have to log in to a
virtual terminal and start gnome-terminal and a window manager. But
I have lots of lovely zombie processes. I don't think it's related to
the CUPS nonsense, though.

See e.g.
http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-devel-list@(protected)

But judging from that thread it's a mis-matched hal and dbus, although
whether that can also cause spurious messages about CPUS I don't know.

Looks like GNOME hasn't quite settled down yet.

Liam

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