Hello,

This is a newbie question. Please be gentle. Any help would be appreciated in resolving this issue. For some reason whenever I'd try to print, the printing interface ( with my printers and "print to pdf" ) would pop up ( in gnome), I'd choose a printer and it would hang/lockup. This started today. Everything was fine on Friday. When I open up a console and type: 

system-config-printer

I got the following error message after doing cntrl +c: 


$ system-config-printer
^CTraceback (most recent call last):

[GSW@localhost ~]$   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 1624, in on_tvMainList_cursor_changed
    self.fillPrinterTab(name)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 1661, in fillPrinterTab
    self.ppd = printer.getPPD()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/cupshelpers.py", line 147, in getPPD
    filename = self.connection.getPPD(self.name)
KeyboardInterrupt
The application 'system-config-printer.py' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.

I reinstalled cups for the heck of it and now get this error when I use the same approach:

system-config-printer
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 3732, in <module>
   
[GSW@localhost ~]$ main(start_printer, change_ppd)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 3705, in main
    mainwindow = GUI(start_printer, change_ppd)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 502, in __init__
    self.populateList(start_printer, change_ppd)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 762, in populateList
    self.on_tvMainList_cursor_changed(self.tvMainList)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 1624, in on_tvMainList_cursor_changed
    self.fillPrinterTab(name)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 1661, in fillPrinterTab
    self.ppd = printer.getPPD()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/cupshelpers.py", line 147, in getPPD
    filename = self.connection.getPPD(self.name)
KeyboardInterrupt

Thanks!

Gary