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Description of problem: Neither system-config-printer nor the new "printer" dialog in the System Settings application is able to add my Brother MFC8660DN printer Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-printer-1.3.2-2.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Entirely reproducible for me. The key thing may be that there is no driver that the system recognizes, but previous releases have all just allowed me to pick a brother driver by hand that works for this (I think Fedora comes with the mfc8640 driver that works for the 8660dn too) It never allows me to pick a driver. system-config-printer will be searching for a driver forever, and the new "System Settigns -> Printer" thing is just even worse and just closes the add printer tab. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to configure printer 2. Fail 3. Gnash your teeth at the computer when you can't print Actual results: No printer queue, no printing Expected results: Working printing Additional info: Up-to-date rawhide (fedora 15) as of today
How long did you leave it searching for drivers? It can take up to a minute or so to get the full list. Please run 'system-config-printer --debug' from a terminal window and try adding the printer. At the point where it is searching for a driver and this takes a long time, wait until you can no longer hear disk activity and then cancel the dialog and close the application. Attach the output to this bug report.
I'm afraid I can no longer reproduce, because the Fedora 15 install was so unusable (not just the printer that didn't work - Gnome shell definitely isn't ready for wider use yet etc) that I had to downgrade that machine back to Fedora 14. As to "searching for a driver" taking a long time - I definitely left it for quite a while. And this machine has a 3.5GHz CPU and a really fast SSD, so quite frankly, if it takes any longer than that, there's some other _serious_ bug somewhere. And since it's a SSD, there is obviously no audible disk activity. But seriously, this machine does a "find / -size 123456" in five seconds. The Fedora 14 "unable to find printer driver" happens in a couple of seconds on the same machine.
It sounds like system-config-printer hit some sort of error and didn't handle it properly; and ABRT didn't notice the error for some reason, otherwise it would have offered you a way to report the Python traceback. Closing for now; please re-open if you see it in the future. Sorry I couldn't get to the bottom of this one.