Bug#697022: system-config-printer: Xfce4 print manager can not use remote CUPS printer
Guido Günther
agx at sigxcpu.org
Mon Dec 31 08:58:08 UTC 2012
hi,
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 01:15:00PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: system-config-printer
> Version: 1.3.7-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> This bug makes it impossible for me to print from this system, and
> thus is important at least to me. I believe the bug is in this
> package; I am experiencing it from the GUI for system settings for
> Xfce.
>
> Of course, it may also be an error in my setup.
Could you try this patch:
diff --git a/printerproperties.py b/printerproperties.py
index ec731c2..94d9401 100755
--- a/printerproperties.py
+++ b/printerproperties.py
@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ class PrinterPropertiesDialog(GtkGUI):
self._monitor = None
self._ppdcache = None
debugprint ("+%s" % self)
+ self.server_is_publishing = None
def __del__ (self):
debugprint ("-%s" % self)
Cheers,
-- Guido
>
>
> * What led up to the situation?
> In Xfce select applications menu | settings | printing.
> Select "connect" button in the popup.
> Enter name of remote system (on the LAN) and hit connect.
> All the printers on the remote system (CUPS on Lenny) are displayed.
> Select the default printer by double-clicking.
> Hit "print test page" on the window that just opened.
> Nothing prints.
> .xsession-errors shows
> <log>
> WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/ross/.cache/keyring-Ps65W8/pkcs11: No such file or directory
> Caught non-fatal exception. Traceback:
> File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/printerproperties.py", line 1351, in load
> if self.server_is_publishing:
> AttributeError: 'PrinterPropertiesDialog' object has no attribute 'server_is_publishing'
> Continuing anyway..
> </log>
>
> Subsequent tries repeat everything above into the logs except the
> gnome-keyring warning.
>
> The server's /var/log/cups/error_log shows (I'm not sure this is from
> the same session, but I think it is since the IP is right)
>
> <server log>
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] cupsdAcceptClient: 26 from 192.168.40.62:631 (IPv4)
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] cupsdReadClient: 26 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] Cancel-Subscription /
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] cupsdIsAuthorized:
> requesting-user-name="ross"
> I [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] Saving subscriptions.conf...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 26 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:29 -0800] cupsdCloseClient: 26
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] process_browse_data: HP_Deskjet_F4400_series at 192.168.40.35 not found...
>
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: clients=0
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: jobs=500
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: jobs-active=0
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: printers=5
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: printers-implicit=0
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: stringpool-string-count=1702
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=8240
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=32760
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "ethfast" =192.168.40.2...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "ethfast:1" =192.168.40.3...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "ethslow" =corn.betterworld.us...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "ethfast" =[xxx]%ethfast...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "ethslow" =[xxxx]%ethslow...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:43:55 -0800] process_browse_data:
> HP_Officejet_Pro_8000_A809 at 192.168.40.35 not found...
> </server log>
>
> It is true that some printers aren't connected. The default printer
> is.
>
> Eventually (c 5 minutes) I get an error pop up ("CUPS server error
> There was an error during the CUPS operation:
> 'server-error-internal-error'") and the display of printers in the
> print manager GUI becomes empty again. There is no additional
> information in .xsession-errors.
>
>
> Server logs show some sessions being closed after exactly 5 minutes:
> <cups logs>
> [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] cupsdAcceptClient: 26 from 192.168.40.62:631 (IPv4)
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] cupsdAcceptClient: 27 from192.168.40.62:631 (IPv4)
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] cupsdReadClient: 27 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] Create-Printer-Subscription /
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800]
> cupsdCreateSubscription(con=0x8965570(27), uri="/")
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] pullmethod="ippget"
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] notify-lease-duration=86400
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] notify-time-interval=0
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:24:35 -0800] cupsdAddSubscription(mask=18f,
> dest=(nil)(), job=(nil)(0), uri="(\
>
> .....[lots of stuff]
>
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] Closing client 26 after 300 seconds of
> inactivity...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] cupsdCloseClient: 26
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] cupsdAcceptClient: 26 from 192.168.40.62:631 (IPv4)
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] cupsdReadClient: 26 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] Get-Notifications /
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] cupsdIsAuthorized: requesting-user-name="ross"
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 26 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:37 -0800] cupsdCloseClient: 26
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:41 -0800] Closing client 27 after 300 seconds of inactivity...
> D [30/Dec/2012:12:29:41 -0800] cupsdCloseClient: 27
> </cups log>
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> Ran ps to see what program was running and examined packages and dependencies.
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> Back to where I started, with no printing.
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
> Printers available from this system. My main concern is printing from
> iceweasel.
>
> Context: This system has a minimalist installation of Xfce; for
> example it does not have python-gnome-keyring, which this package
> suggests. This is a diskless home theatre PC with myth. The server
> is running Lenny and is 32 bits. I am able to print from other
> computers to the server, although I think that is mostly using the SMB
> interface. I am using the same account name as on the server, but the
> two systems have different passwords. CUPS is set to allow anyone to
> print from the local network.
>
> Googling turned up various reports of trouble with remote CUPS
> printing and Xfce, but most of them were old, looked different, or had
> no solution. Searching on the exact error from .xsession-errors
> turned up only
> http://package-import.ubuntu.com/diffs/system-config-printer
> which seems to make massive changes affecting server_is_publishing
> among many other things. Since it is an Ubuntu patch to Debian, I'm
> not sure if it's relevant to the Debian package.
>
> I am comfortable programming in python if there's something you'd
> like me to do here.
>
>
> *** End of the template - remove these lines ***
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
> APT prefers testing-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages system-config-printer depends on:
> ii gnome-icon-theme 3.4.0-2
> ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1
> ii python-cups 1.9.48-1+b1
> ii python-cupshelpers 1.3.7-3
> ii python-dbus 1.1.1-1
> ii python-glade2 2.24.0-3
> ii python-gnome2 2.28.1+dfsg-1
> ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3
> ii python-libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
> ii python-notify 0.1.1-3
> ii python-support 1.0.15
>
> Versions of packages system-config-printer recommends:
> ii cups-pk-helper 0.2.3-2
> ii system-config-printer-udev 1.3.7-3
>
> Versions of packages system-config-printer suggests:
> pn python-gnomekeyring <none>
> pn python-smbc <none>
> pn sessioninstaller <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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