-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-09-11 at 16:12 -0300, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:

I already had this problem. One people of other list here in Brazil suggest me to change my USB cable to an good cable, now I have no more problems. My printer is HP LaserJet 1020.

No, I'm using an HP supplied cable and it is brand new (bundle offer). As the printer works fine, I don't think that's the problem. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjKRTQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UBIACfSVYxXWl+oyRuEfk4IgxqlOXV x44An318z6o3y3obOy4jxmTdsODdR2K6 =Tp1D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-09-12 at 08:51 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:

On Sep 11 20:42 Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Every time I power up the printer or the computer, I'm prompted to enter my root password to configure the new printer - which is already configured and I do not want to modify.

Is this avoidable? Is this a bug?

I'm using opensuse 11.0 and gnome.

And there is nothing visible (e.g. a window title or something like this) which indicates which program it is what shows up this stuff?

Nope. None unless I type the password. I think it was something from gnome related to hal. I'll power up the printer now and check [...] It's gone! The problem has suddenly gone away, and I did nothing, I promise :-) Except the hplip update, you know,, but that is not related. Hold on... this is probably why it dissapeared: Sep 12 12:17:50 nimrodel kernel: usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=4417 Sep 12 12:17:50 nimrodel kernel: usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Sep 12 12:17:50 nimrodel kernel: usb 2-4: Product: HP Color LaserJet CP1515n Sep 12 12:17:50 nimrodel kernel: usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Sep 12 12:17:50 nimrodel kernel: usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 00.. Sep 12 12:17:51 nimrodel kernel: hal-cups-autoco[26652]: segfault at 0 ip 0804bdf7 sp bfa9aef0 error 4 in cups-autoconfig[8048000+6000] hal-cups-autoco died. I can live with that, I don't need it. But I guess you want to find out. The rpm version is "cups-autoconfig-0.1.0-113.1". I can open a bugzilla if you want.

And there are also no ckeck boxes like [ ] configure it now [ ] do not configure it now, but come up later again [ ] go away and do not come up again for this device [ ] get lost and never come up again for any device

ROTFL! Heh! I was going to suggest exactly that to the gnome guys ;-) No, nothing of the kind. Password first. I have forgotten the details of what came later. It did work, but the test print page had the margins off by 1 cm at least, so I deleted the config and tried the "normal" way, that you know it worked.

Strange software.

Indeed!

By the way: I neither use Gnome nor KDE. I use only a plain window manager. There are too many "friendly" and "helpful" automatisms in the desktop systems which annoy me - which does of course not mean that the desktop systems are not the right thing for usual users.

I feel the same. I use gnome mainly because it has less gadgetry; but sometimes I do use kde, and of course, many kde apps on their own. XFCE its very nice. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjKRIEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XAgwCfdP/uUJ6JwxxoujKenADUXv1p 8UwAnj8PB0GXvx6ymFx62mEAS8BfV2Wg =bSoN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-09-12 at 15:07 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:

Hello,

On Sep 12 12:29 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):

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Sep 12 12:17:51 nimrodel kernel: hal-cups-autoco[26652]: segfault at 0 ip 0804bdf7 sp bfa9aef0 error 4 in cups-autoconfig[8048000+6000]

Since openSUSE 10.3 we have the new RPM "cups-autoconfig" which contains a utility for auto-configuring USB printers which is triggered by udev/HAL device events.

... Ok, I see two problems. 1) my original question, how to avoid the nuisance of being asked to configure the printer many times can be solved by removing the rpm. That's doable in my case. 2) The program itself segfault. As it is not part of the updgraded packages, then I see no problem reporting it in bugzilla so that whoever packages it (desktop team?) can check it. I think I will not remove the package till some time after I report, in case they want me to do some testing.

By default it disables/enables print queues when udev/HAL events appear that a USB printer is disconnected/connected. Its /etc/cups-autoconfig.conf contains by default:

Yes, I found that file. AFAIK, it is a global enable/disable, not just "such printer".

Debugging output is in /var/log/cups-autoconfig.log

Emtpy.

In openSUSE 10.3 it caused problems in particular for HP printers, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334166 but this should be fixed for openSUSE 11.0.

As I'm using 11.0, no, that's not my case.

In your case it loks more like the usual unreliability of the USB/HAL/whatever system.

Could be.

If you don't like what cups-autoconfig does (i.e. if you prefer that you control the print queues and not whatever automatism), uninstall the cups-autoconfig package and reboot (or restart HAL) to make HAL aware of its changed config files, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218393#c28

For some background information, see http://code.google.com/p/cups-autoconfig/

On the end, I will remove the rpm, probably. But meanwhile, I think it is better I keep it to report on problems ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjKhsQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XnwgCgg7JaKmQmD7WXXVXbQp3fdXfs ia0AniXoVpBIEArXXvsYtWFJh11gTYih =VFw0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org