[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#471117: Bug#471117: xfprint4: the BSD-LPR interface doesn't find any printer

[rollingbits (aka Lucas)]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:55:17AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On dim, 2008-03-16 at 01:46 -0300, rollingbits (aka Lucas) wrote:
> >  I've a printer working properly with lprng but xfprint4 doesn't
> > find it. When I start xfprint4-manager on a xterm, the warning
> > 
> > ** (xfprint4-manager:24831): WARNING **: unable to open printcap
> > file : /usr/etc/printcap
> > 
> > is printed from time to time. The common location of the printcap
> > file is under /etc not /usr/etc... to put a link to the right file
> > on the searched path solves the problem but the right solution is
> > to make it open the right file (/etc/printcap).
> 
> Hmhm, it seems that xfprint4 may have a problem with lprng queues
> [0].  Could you try with pure lpr and report back?
> 
> I don't have a working printer here, so I really can't reproduce.
> 
> [0]: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779

I tried with the lpr package and the same thing happens: the printer
is found with a link /usr/etc/printcap -> /etc/printcap; w/o link, w/o
printer. I did some more experimentation and I found that the xfprint4
print dialog segfaults

kernel: xfprint4[11295]: segfault at 00000004 eip 08051002 esp bfe42990 error 4

when I try to print with it (this looks new for me) but I can control
the print queue with the xfprint4-manager. Only the printer is found
with lprng (no job appears -- this looks like the problem reported in
[0]) and xfprinf4 still segfaults

kernel: xfprint4[12298]: segfault at 00000004 eip 08051002 esp bfed29b0 error 4

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