Bug 51130

We (Red Hat) should really try to fix this before next release.

problems 1&2 are fixed, 3&4 is outside of my abbility to change, and I am
looking at 5 now.

make that 123 is fixed, 4&5 unchangeable, 6 is being investigated

What is the problem with 4 & 5 - is it the driver? or something else

yes. Those are an issue with the underlying ghostscript drivers. There are
hundreds of them.

http://www.moongroup.com/images.d/printconf-error.png
printconf-gui crashes and is inoperable

Running roswell beta (the first release). Trying to configure a printer fails
and running it breaks printers which were properly configured and functional
under previous installs. The problem is that there are numerous Python errors,
some which are fatal, and some which simply block continuing to try and
configure. Trond suggested I nab the latest from rawhide and install them. I
did, along with the latest version of Newt and alchemist (both of which were
required to upgrade). No joy... the link above gives a screenshot of the error
message which occurs on start-up. So printconf will not run.

1. Install roswell
2. Try to configure printer.
3. Doesn't work and will break existing configuration if it exists.
4. Install alchemist, newt, printconf, and printconf-gui from rawhide.
(Versions: alchemist-1.0.14-1.i386.rpm, alchemist-devel-1.0.14-1.i386.rpm,
newt-0.50.30-1.i386.rpm, newt-devel-0.50.30-1.i386.rpm,
printconf-0.3.10-1.i386.rpm, printconf-gui-0.3.10-1.i386.rpm)
5. Crashes on startup (see
http://www.moongroup.com/images.d/printconf-error.png)

[root@stealth root]# rpm -Uvh printconf-0.3.10-1.i386.rpm
printconf-gui-0.3.10-1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:printconf              warning:
/etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl created as
/etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl.rpmnew
########################################### [ 50%]
warning:    erase rmdir of /var/cache/alchemist/printconf failed: Directory not
empty
warning:    erase rmdir of /usr/share/printconf/util failed: Directory not empty
warning:    erase rmdir of /usr/share/printconf/tests failed: Directory not
empty
warning:    erase rmdir of /usr/share/printconf/mf_rules failed: Directory not
empty
warning:    erase rmdir of /usr/share/printconf failed: Directory not empty
   2:printconf-gui          ########################################### [100%]
[root@stealth root]# printconf-gui 
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/printconf-gui", line 7, in ?
    import printconf_gui
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_gui.py", line 1895, in ?
    gtk.mainloop()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 416, in
init_queue_edit
    dict = editor.editReadBox(editbox)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/pyalchemist_python.py", line 70, in
editReadBox
    depth = editpos)
KeyError: No handler found for box_type: "fileblackbox"

Install printconf and printconf-gui from RH7.1 and it works.
(Versions: printconf-0.2.12-1.i386.rpm and printconf-gui-0.2.12-1.i386.rpm)

#6 is fixed.

The fileblackbox problem is an alchemist bug. Upgrade to the latest version of
the alchemist.

The Help button for printconf-gui (the original Roswell version) does not work 
when clicked. May I ask where I can find corrected packages for the errors 
listed above? I'm trying to get printconf to work myself (using a network print 
server.) Thanks, Bob Cochran.