Bug 1291485 - Duplex and advance printer options cannot be changed
Summary: Duplex and advance printer options cannot be changed
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cups-filters
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Zdenek Dohnal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-14 23:09 UTC by Jason Tibbitts
Modified: 2016-12-20 17:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 17:02:10 UTC
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Description Jason Tibbitts 2015-12-14 23:09:29 UTC
Since the update to 1.2.0, (from 1.0.75 on my F23 machine, 1.0.66 on my F22 machines) I have found that in both the KDE and Gnome printing dialogs, the options for changing both the duplex options or the advanced printer properties are greyed out and cannot be altered.  I do not completely understand why cups-filters would be involved in this so I'm not sure where to start looking for the underlying cause of the problem.

Comment 1 Jason Tibbitts 2015-12-14 23:34:21 UTC
I've foind that if I restart cups-browsed, things work (i.e. those options become settable) for a while.  And then after a bit, it stops working.

Just after a restart, I see:

> lpstat -s
system default destination: rm660
[...]
device for rm660: ipps://print1.local:631/printers/rm660

And things work as expected.  After a bit:

> lpstat -s
system default destination: rm660
[...]
device for rm660: implicitclass:rm660

And now the options are greyed out.  I have no idea why.  On my F22 machines, at least, I can still print without problems even after things have changed to "implicitclass".

Comment 2 Jason Tibbitts 2015-12-15 00:17:43 UTC
Sorry to spam, but I starting pulling builds out of koji to see if any of them made any difference:

1.3.0 - bad
1.1.0 - bad
1.0.71 - seems to work fine.

There were other builds but they've been pruned; I'll start building them from git locally.

1.0.74 - bad
1.0.73 - bad
(no 1.0.72 upstream)

So somewhere between 1.0.71 and 1.0.73 things went awry.

Comment 3 Jason Tibbitts 2015-12-15 00:38:47 UTC
OK, and the mystery is solved.  The only thing added between those two versions is the implicitclass stuff.  Here's the rundown on what's gone wrong:

Print server has BrowseLocalProtocols cups (and runs cups-browsed, obviously).
This is necessary so that a couple of old RHEL machines can see all of the shared printers.

All of the client settings are unchanged from what Fedora ships.  This means "BrowseRemoteProtocols dnssd cups".

Wen cups-browsed starts, it pulls the printer list from avahi and sets up the printers.

When the server next broadcasts the printers, cups-browsed on the client see a bunch of printers appear with the same names but different hostnames.  1.0.73 and later figure it's some load balancing thing and reconfigure everything for that.

Things break.

The solution is to just use BrowseRemoteProtocols dnssd

I guess the default Fedora config file does OK in a setup where the print server might only do cups broadcasting, but it's pretty broken if the server tries to support both old and new clients.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-06-24 10:32:24 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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