| Summary: | printtool crashes on startup | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | arthur |
| Component: | printtool | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-07-08 15:09:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
This issue has been forwarded to a developer for further action. Try moving your printcap off to the side and reexecuting printtool (i.e. make sure there is not a config file for printtool to read in) and see what happens. We have no problems running printtool here in the office, so I am tending to think that something in your printcap file is throwing it for a loop. what does your /etc/printcap say? What version of ghostscript do you have installed? ------- Email Received From arthur@ablair.physics.wisc.edu 06/29/99 13:53 ------- It seems that in the SPEC-File of the printtool-RPM is a bug. The same is happen to me: After updating from 5.2 to 6.0 I had the same crash of printtool (with an other printerdb_descr name). What the printtool-rpm in 6.0 does is: it overwrites file that contains the printerdescriptions for printtool without saving the old file. What RedHat has to do is to changing this behavior. What you can do is: Open the new file that contains the printerdescriptions for printtool (sorry, I forgot the name) and go to the end of the file. There is now a other name for the EpsonStylusColor-Printer. Copy this name over 'EpsonStylusColor' in your printcap and you can start printtool. fixed in rhs-printfilters-1.56-3 (printerdb is now a %config file...) |
Just upgraded from 5.2 to 6.0. printing didn't work so I fired up printtool. First it griped about SAMBA not installed. Dont care so I click OK. Then it gripes about ncpfs. Dont care so I click ok. Then it crashes with: [root@ludwig /root]# printtool Error in startup script: can't read "printerdb_descr(EpsonStylusColor)": no such element in array while executing "set printer $printerdb_descr([lindex $info 4])" (procedure "FILTERED_summaryline" line 7) invoked from within "FILTERED_summaryline $i "local printer"" (procedure "LOCAL_summaryline" line 5) invoked from within "$printer_type($i)_summaryline $i" (procedure "redisplay" line 6) invoked from within "redisplay" (file "/usr/bin/printtool" line 3213) Bottom line. I cant print. This is serious.