[opensuse] printer system crashes
Dear listmates, I have configured my printing system for my workplace. There I am using their cups server and everything works perfectly. (in yast: "do all printing via remote cups server"). Now when I am working from my home, whatever I am trying to do related to printing results in a crash.. - I would like to use the "print to file" utility of firefox, but when I choose "print" from the file menu, firefox crashes. - When start kjobviewer, it crashes - Starting the "manage printing" (cups) from the menus, tells me that it can't connect to localhost port 631 .. all this presumably because my laptop can't connect to the cups server. I actually have to re-configure printers through yast always when I switch between home and work.. .. not flexible at all. It would be great to be able to configure the printing system for N places (work, home, etc.). Any tricks for doing just that? I am running 64-bit suse 11.0 on an amd dual-core (turion) processor. My laptop is hp pavilion tx 1000. Thanks in advance, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2008-10-19 at 11:41 +0300, Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
Dear listmates,
I have configured my printing system for my workplace. There I am using their cups server and everything works perfectly. (in yast: "do all printing via remote cups server").
Now when I am working from my home, whatever I am trying to do related to printing results in a crash..
I think you also need the local cup server. Anyway, it should not crash. Open a bugzilla. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj7D1QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WrPACcCnQ3xamY0VnK+mIucAt1MQlz QIMAnjlbQB1GAorVPl5ufU+ggWySe574 =B7b9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 19 October 2008 03:41:08 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote: ...
I actually have to re-configure printers through yast always when I switch between home and work.. .. not flexible at all. It would be great to be able to configure the printing system for N places (work, home, etc.).
Any tricks for doing just that?
Besides it should not crash, how about configuring different queues (printers) and then select from print dialog. It is not automatic, but it should find printer and prevent crash. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Sunday 19 October 2008 03:41:08 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote: ...
I actually have to re-configure printers through yast always when I switch between home and work.. .. not flexible at all. It would be great to be able to configure the printing system for N places (work, home, etc.).
Any tricks for doing just that?
Besides it should not crash, how about configuring different queues (printers) and then select from print dialog. It is not automatic, but it should find printer and prevent crash.
If he has only the cups-client, there are no queues that he can configure. At least, I understand that doing «(in yast: "do all printing via remote cups server")» means that, that only cups-client is installed. However, programs should fail gracefully and indicate that no cups server was found (ie, no queue). This is a bug in cups-client, I guess --> bugzilla. About the changing places thing, there are two other possible solutions: auto-cups and profiles (in yast). The second is rather heavy-handed. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj7SgIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UZBgCdEAQg6ms7qrhRdrWl0bmUfhIz sGMAoJfdHeQQpz4N5CEEaigZPLpw+V0V =/1yE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hello, On Oct 19 11:41 Sampsa Riikonen wrote (shortened):
I have configured my printing system for my workplace. There I am using their cups server and everything works perfectly. (in yast: "do all printing via remote cups server").
Do you use the new YaST printer config module for openSUSE 11.1? Do you use a openSUSE 11.1 FACTORY system too or what do you use? A non-accessible "client-only" server leads to an endless sequence of weird further behaviour.
Now when I am working from my home, whatever I am trying to do related to printing results in a crash..
- I would like to use the "print to file" utility of firefox, but when I choose "print" from the file menu, firefox crashes.
It could be a bug in Firefox - or it might be even a bug in the CUPS library when it is the CUPS library call which crashes when a "client-only" server is non-accessible.
- When start kjobviewer, it crashes
Both Firefox and kjobviewer do not crash for me when I have ServerName foo.bar.com in /etc/cups/client.conf (i.e. a really non-accessible server). Firefox shows of course no queues but I can still print to file from Firefox and kjobviewer comes up but shows of course no queues. Therefore I think it is whatever else very special issue which causes the crash on your particular sysytem. Perhaps you have a openSUSE 11.0 system messed up with packages from FACTORY see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Printer_Enhancement#Under_constructi...
- Starting the "manage printing" (cups) from the menus, tells me that it can't connect to localhost port 631
Of course because you did explicitely switch to "do all printing via remote cups server" but this remote cups server on your workplace is not accessible from your home location. You need a local running cupsd in your case and use CUPS Browsing to print via network on your workplace which is the default - i.e. just use the default. For background information see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell#Configuring_CUPS_in_the_Networ... Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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Johannes Meixner
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Rajko M.
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Sampsa Riikonen