[indiana-discuss] problem with CUPS (again) in build 117

Harry Lu Harry.Lu at Sun.COM
Wed Jul 1 07:17:47 PDT 2009


Luca Morettoni wrote:
> Hello list, I have (again) problem while printing with some (all?) 
> application under GNOME; I use CUPS as a printer manager (here in 
> office I have only smb-shader printers) and before 117 I can't see the 
> list of the printers when the printer dialog appear but if I leave the 
> "default printer" all the output was redirected to the default CUPS 
> printer.
> Now, after 117 update if I try to print with firefox (or gimp or 
> evince for example) I got a window where I can only select to print to 
> a file.
> The screeshot of this window is here:
> http://www.morettoni.net/files/firefox-print.png
>
> Instead if I print under thunderbird (or OpenOffice) I can select the 
> printer and all is fine, as you can see here:
> http://www.morettoni.net/files/thunderbird-print.png
>
> any hints to resolve this problem?
Luca,

    I think you are seeing 
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9588

    Remove the "_all" line from $HOME/.printers should be a workaround.

Harry



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