Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 229369
gtk print dialogue spews warnings if cups not running
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:57 EST
Description of problem: I guess I'm inviting the response NOTABUG, but: For many reasons which need not concern us here, cups annoys me and I don't want it running. Even if it were running, there wouldn't be any printers configured in it. I have an adequate "lpr" client which connects to a networked Solaris LPD print server. However, as soon as I open up the "print" dialogue on OpenOffice Writer, I get: ** (swriter.bin:19986): WARNING **: Error result: Too many failed attempts ** (swriter.bin:19986): WARNING **: Error getting printer list: Too many failed attempts echoed every couple of seconds for ever more until I quit Writer. Moreover, it seems impossible to persuade the dialogue to use "lpr", so I have to save to a file and then print the file. I'm not too bothered about that (though it would be nice), but the warnings are rather over-the-top: if there are too many failed attempts then surely it should stop trying... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gtk2-2.10.8-1.fc6 openoffice.org-writer-2.0.4-5.5.10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Stop cups 2. Start oowriter 3. Attempt to print a file Actual results: Screenfuls of error messages Expected results: At most a couple of error messages
I will investigate the warnings. As for using lpr, you can do that by adding the line gtk-print-backends="lpr,file" to /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
I've removed the warnings in the upstream code. I'll do an fc6 update when the next stable GTK+ release is available.