Bug 454684 - foomatic-configure gives warning message when using -P or -Q options and produces no output
Summary: foomatic-configure gives warning message when using -P or -Q options and prod...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: foomatic
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
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Reported: 2008-07-09 18:15 UTC by John McDonald
Modified: 2019-04-24 13:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-09-02 07:57:20 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2009:1240 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE foomatic bug fix update 2009-09-01 08:31:08 UTC

Description John McDonald 2008-07-09 18:15:29 UTC
Description of problem:

When executing 'foomatic-configure -r -P -q', which should produce a perl hash
of printer information, I receive the following error message:

WARNING: No tool for downloading web content found, please install either
"wget" or "curl"! The result you got may be incorrect!
Cannot read /etc/foomatic/direct directory!

The same message appears when trying 'foomatic-configure -r -Q -q' (XML output).

No perl hash or xml data is returned after receiving the warning message.
To fix this functionality, I created /etc/foomatic/defaultspooler with
'cups' on the first line. After creating the defaultspooler file I was
able to view both the perl hash (-P) and xml data (-Q). This default file
should probably be created when foomatic-3.0.2-38.1.el5 is installed.

rpms installed on the system:

foomatic-3.0.2-38.1.el5
wget-1.10.2-7.el5
curl-7.15.5-2.el5
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

foomatic-3.0.2-38.1.el5

How reproducible:
Very..

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Make sure that file /etc/foomatic/defaultspooler DOESN'T exist.  It
    shouldn't exist after foomatic-3.0.2-38.1.el5 is installed.
2.  Execute 'foomatic-configure -r -Q -q' or 'foomatic-configure -r -P -q'
    and observe the warning message:

  WARNING: No tool for downloading web content found, please install either
"wget" or "curl"! The result you got may be incorrect!
Cannot read /etc/foomatic/direct directory!

No XML or Perl hash returned

3.  Create /etc/foomatic/defaultspooler with 'cups' on the first line and the
    warning message will NOT appear and you should recieve XML or Perl hash.
  
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Additional info:
This problem was also reported here:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2970

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 07:57:20 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1240.html


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