Description of problem: I tried to set up my printer epson sx 218 for use with fedora 19 - alpha. Aafter detecting a driver, dialog for giving a name to printer opened, name for printer was inserted, then I clicked on proceed, then progam crashed Version-Release number of selected component: system-config-printer-1.4.0-4.fc19 Additional info: cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py core_backtrace: 5072252ede6c0c5771c1c9ec846cd8b7a155d11a 0xf56 on_btnNPApply_clicked /usr/share/system-config-printer/newprinter.py - dso_list: system-config-printer-libs-1.4.0-4.fc19.noarch executable: /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py kernel: 3.9.0-0.rc8.git0.2.fc19.i686.PAE runlevel: N 5 uid: 1000 ureports_counter: 2 Truncated backtrace: newprinter.py:3926:on_btnNPApply_clicked:UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/newprinter.py", line 3926, in on_btnNPApply_clicked self.cups._begin_operation (_("adding printer %s") % name) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128) Local variables in innermost frame: info: u'EPSON Epson Stylus SX218' widget: <Button object at 0xa65966c (GtkButton at 0xa7c05d8)> checkppd: None name: u'EPSON-Epson-Stylus-SX218' ppd: <cups.PPD object at 0xaf49380> self: <NewPrinterGUI object at 0xa659324 (newprinter+NewPrinterGUI at 0xa5cf9d0)> uri: 'usb://EPSON/Stylus%20SX218?serial=4D464A4B3238393362&interface=1' location: u'localhost.localdomain' check: False
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To be more detailed, after searching for printer drivers, the dialog box : New printer - printer description with 'printer name' ' description' and 'place' came up, I clicked on 'Apply' but dialog box sat there, stuck, nothing else happened then. No printer installed, no printing possible ;-(
today I did delete fedoras epson printer driver and install epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.2.2-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm from http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=19825&DSCCHK=5c7b4ff541de9a525dc84fb439258ab38e7fefd2 when it came to the printer name dialog screen it still hang but in the background the print settings dialog window did show that the printer sx218 was detected and correctly installed. I could do some test printing and then simply did shut the printer name dialog screen (click on x). Then the printer icon still did show up in print settings dialog, usable, even when I reopened the system-printer-config tool. Anyway this is a workaround and not the straight way to set up the printer. So looks like bug is in saving the setings given in the new printer printer name and descripion dialog box somehow, which should shut down or proceed when 'apply'-button is pressed.
Fixed upstream in commit 20868d9.
>>> Fixed upstream in commit 20868d9. Thanks for reply and efforts, but what does your comment mean actually. I did download the updated version of that espon driver for fedora (your update) only to find that printer icon gave me an exclamation mark and printing was no longer possible. I had to uninstall the update and reinstall the original driver from http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=19825&DSCCHK=5c7b4ff541de9a525dc84fb439258ab38e7fefd2 to have a printer working again. Already beginning to fear that this 'Schrödinger Cat' gets more unpredictable the more it is updated. On other hand having honest respect for the developers like you working on an 'alpha' version before it is finished and stable. Have similiar experience from other fields of 'development' ;-))
(In reply to comment #6) > >>> Fixed upstream in commit 20868d9. > Thanks for reply and efforts, but what does your comment mean actually. It means it's been fixed with this commit: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/system-config-printer.git/commit/?id=20868d9503285865b9558ba3cd33e3f33ccde7c0 You originally reported (via the crash reporting tool - abrt) a crash in system-config-printer and that's what Tim fixed upstream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream_%28software_development%29). This hasn't been fixed in Fedora yet. We can't help you with any third-party software, i.e the driver from epson.net.
system-config-printer-1.4.1-1.fc19, python-cups-1.9.63-3.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-5419/system-config-printer-1.4.1-1.fc19,python-cups-1.9.63-3.fc19
Package system-config-printer-1.4.1-1.fc19, python-cups-1.9.63-3.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing system-config-printer-1.4.1-1.fc19 python-cups-1.9.63-3.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-5419/system-config-printer-1.4.1-1.fc19,python-cups-1.9.63-3.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
system-config-printer-1.4.1-1.fc19, python-cups-1.9.63-3.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.