Bug 162033
| Summary: | system-config-printer crashes with a traceback when driver==Postscript | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Hans de Goede <hdegoede> |
| Component: | system-config-printer | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-07-06 14:19:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Reported upstream. I don't want to be a PITA, but my reason for reporting this seperatly and against system-config-printer, is that I believe that an error in the foomatic database should not lead to a traceback and a crash but to a nice userfriendly dialogbox. This particular issue is that the database is not self-consistent. There's not much friendly you can say to the user at that point. :-/ Hmm, perhaps foomatic ought to have a consistency check in its %install step. Yes that would be an excellent idea and solution. Now all thats left is coding it :) Turns out there are several such inconsistencies: http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/foomatic-devel/2005q3/002193.html |
I had some problems with my printer so I decided to reset all my printer configfiles to default, start system-config-printer and add my printer. My printer is a HP Laserjet 2100, this one contains in the foomatic xml file: <driver>Postscript</driver> Problem: -Selecting this printer (/dev/lp0) -finish adding it -click edit -traceback: The printer HP LaserJet 2100 (ID: HP-LaserJet_2100) is not supported by the driver Postscript! Couldn't load driver information. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 600, in edit_button_clicked if self.editQueue.editQueueDialog (iter): File "/usr/share/printconf/util/editQueue.py", line 427, in editQueueDialog self.select_printer_iter (iter) File "/usr/share/printconf/util/editQueue.py", line 511, in select_printer_iter self.printer_model_selected (self.printer_view) File "/usr/share/printconf/util/editQueue.py", line 841, in printer_model_selected driver_index = self.recommended_driver AttributeError: editQueue instance has no attribute 'recommended_driver' Selecting 2100M works fine. Also the entry for the 2100 is plain wrong since this one can't do Postscript, it should use the plxmono or lj5gray driver. See the entry for the 2100M which can do postscript but defaults to plxmono because the 2100M identifies itself as 2100 which makes it impossible to distuingish the two for hw autodetect.