From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 Epiphany/1.1.12 Description of problem: After upgrading from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Test 3 and reconfiguring my USB printer, I am now unable to print from either Mozilla or Epiphany. I am able to print from system-config-printer (text and PostScript), from lpr on the command line, and from CUPS-friendly GNOME applications such as GEdit and Ximian Evolution. Both Mozilla and Epiphany seem to want to pipe their generated postscript to lpr, but it doesn't seem to work; I don't see any errors, no print job appears in the queue, and no document is printed. cups-1.1.20-6 epiphany-1.1.12-0 hpijs-1.6-1 mozilla-1.6-3 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.6-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Epiphany 2. Navigate to a web page 3. File->Print 4. Click Print (accepting default value of lpr) Actual Results: Nothing. Same problem with Mozilla. Expected Results: Print job is generated, sent to the print spooler, then printed. Additional info:
Changing Mozilla to print to a PostScript file mozilla.ps generates a non-empty file, however attempting to open it in GNOME Ghostscript Viewer (GGV) shows three blank pages with an error message in the status bar: "File is not a valid PostScript document.". Attempting to print this file using "lpr" exhibits the same symptoms as printing the file using the menus in Mozilla or Ephy. The first few lines of the generated file follow. I had wondered if the printing backend (CUPS and HPIJS) didn't handle PostScript 3.0, but this seems unlikely as I've printed other PostScript 3.0 documents only moments ago (such as a manual page generated by GNU roff groff-1.18.1-34 which had a similar PostScript 3.0 header). %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%BoundingBox: 18 18 577.45 823.7 %%Creator: Mozilla PostScript module (rv:1.6/2004042215) %%DocumentData: Clean8Bit %%DocumentPaperSizes: A4 %%Orientation: Portrait %%Pages: (atend) %%PageOrder: Ascend %%EndComments % MozillaCharsetName: iso-8859-1
Created attachment 99905 [details] Mozilla PostScript output file from printing a Bugzilla page This file also crashes GNU GhostScript 7.07 (try running ps2pdf on it).
GhostScript was dying when loading some of Adobe Type1 fonts I had installed that do not come standard with Fedora such as Helvetica and Times. Removing those fonts is a temporary workaround. I guess if there is a bug, it's more likely to be in GhostScript.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Closing per lack of response. Note that FC1 and FC2 are no longer supported even by Fedora Legacy. Please install a still supported version and retest. If this still occurs on FC3 or FC4 and is a security issue, please assign to that version and Fedora Legacy. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. mozilla itself is not shipped in FC6, so for most of these bugs that means testing in FC5 or against firefox.