- UCLA M.S. Computer Science
- Android Developer
- Freelance IT
or, thoughts from a random graduate student
A while ago WINE started acting quite strange for me. It would frequently stall on startup, taking upwards of 30 seconds to launch anything, even builtins like winecfg, wine explorer and the like. Different WINE revisions, different kernels, different sound subsystems, performing wineboot --update, none of these solved my problem either.
Turns out this whole mess is caused by CUPS! I had CUPS configured for a printer several years ago, but the printer died last year, and I haven't bothered to replace it since. Well, due to this bug, it turns out WINE is querying CUPS on startup and finding a badly configured setup! I removed my poor old dead printer, fixed my CUPS setup, and the problem went away!
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