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These reboots are maybe not needed. But when trouble-shooting a computer I do it frequently. It has to do with my experience in the Mac-world. And old habits die hard.
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To Edwin:
Yes, I do this too. However, I was thinking that it should only be necessary to kill offending processes (any frozen apps, cupsd itself). What do you think?

Anyway, so you think its something wrong with KDE? Its not just KDE apps I have trouble printing from. True, I've been using mainly KDE apps in class (Konqueror, Konsole, Kate) but I also opened a *.pdf file with acrobat reader and had the same trouble printing.

Maybe I should try some other apps or starting KNOPPIX with a different desktop manager. Does cups only work with KDE?

BTW, I've never submitted a bug report. What's involved? You say that the fact that cupsd doesn't start at boot-up has been reported. How do you know that? Did you report it? How do you see what's been reported? Is that in fact a bug? I never noticed if cupsd started at boo-up in other versions of KNOPPIX.

Regards,