Printer setup consistently crashing after roughly 10 seconds after opening the utility to add a printer

Issues & Assistance
1

When I try to add a printer through the KDE printer setup GUI it always crashes after 10 seconds.

It also did that before I reinstalled CachyOS.

Feel free to ask for more info.

2

First guess might be not fully up-to-date?

sudo pacman -Syu

Maybe we could check on those printer packages?

pacman -Qs print
3

It gives this :

pacman -Qs print
local/chromaprint 1.6.0-3.1
    Library for extracting fingerprints from any audio source
local/cups 2:2.4.19-1
    OpenPrinting CUPS - daemon package
local/cups-filters 2.0.1-2.1
    OpenPrinting CUPS Filters
local/cups-pdf 3.0.3-1.1
    PDF printer for cups
local/foomatic-db 3:20260209-1
    Foomatic - The collected knowledge about printers, drivers, and driver options in XML files, used by foomatic-db-engine to
    generate PPD files.
local/foomatic-db-engine 5:20200131-2.1
    Foomatic - Foomatic's database engine generates PPD files from the data in Foomatic's XML database. It also contains scripts to
    directly generate print queues and handle jobs.
local/foomatic-db-gutenprint-ppds 5.3.5-1.1
    simplified prebuilt ppd files
local/foomatic-db-nonfree-ppds 3:20260209-1
    Foomatic - non-free PPDs from printer manufacturers
local/foomatic-db-ppds 3:20260209-1
    Foomatic - PPDs from printer manufacturers
local/gtk3 1:3.24.52-1.1
    GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit
local/gutenprint 5.3.5-1.1
    Top quality printer drivers for POSIX systems
local/lcms2 2.19.1-1.1
    Small-footprint color management engine, version 2
local/lib32-lcms2 2.17-1
    Small-footprint color management engine, version 2 (32-bit)
local/lib32-libcups 2.4.19-1
    The CUPS Printing System - client libraries (32-bit)
local/libcups 2:2.4.19-1
    OpenPrinting CUPS - client libraries and headers
local/libcupsfilters 2.1.1-4.4
    OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - contains all the code of the filters of the former cups-filters package as library functions
local/libppd 2.1.1-2.1
    OpenPrinting - the legacy support library for PPD files
local/perl 5.42.2-1.1
    A highly capable, feature-rich programming language
local/smbclient 2:4.24.3-1.1
    Tools to access a server's filespace and printers via SMB
local/system-config-printer 1.5.18-6
    A CUPS printer configuration tool and status applet
local/texinfo 7.3-1.1
    GNU documentation system for on-line information and printed output
local/tinysparql 3.11.1-1
    Low-footprint RDF triple store with SPARQL 1.1 interface

It also seems that the printer can still be configured through the HP setup in the terminal by specifying the IP address. Honestly terminal config seems to be the most straightfoward method. I was just scared to do it because I forgot how to.

4

I do not even see print-manager in your packages so I am not sure what you were using?

And for the upgrade we did want to see the output .. besides making sure the system is up-to-date it helps me catch examples such as when users have overwritten their repository config.