GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171847
Printers don't work. Period.
Last modified: 2008-01-29 13:10:37 UTC
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable Package: gnome-print Severity: blocker Version: GNOME2.8.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Ubuntu Synopsis: Printers don't work. Period. Bugzilla-Product: gnome-print Bugzilla-Component: gnome-cups-manager Bugzilla-Version: unspecified BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.8.0) Description: Description of the crash: Tried to add a printer. CUPS manager crashed. Part of a symptom where no printer-related features work at all. Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. Try to add a printer. 2. Watch the printer fail to do anything (including print test pages). 3. Try again. 4. Watch CUPS explode on contact. Expected Results: I expect my printer to be working. How often does this happen? Printer failure: 100% of the time. (hp LasterJet 1000 series on USB) Crash: only happened the once -- but that's because at this stage I've given up hope of ever seeing a printer working. Additional Information: If you want Linux to be taken seriously as a desktop replacement, printers not working--AT ALL!--is not a good way to do it. I had high hopes for Ubuntu being, finally, the Microsoft-breaker. Not being able to print, however, has lowered those hopes dramatically. Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-cups-manager' (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 1088439552 (LWP 3930)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
+ Trace 57405
Thread 1 (Thread 1088439552 (LWP 3930))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2005-03-27 22:06 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "gnome-print". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Previous reporter was mtr1966@hotpop.com. Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. Matches the stack trace in bug 160066, which has been marked as a duplicate of 151756. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151756 ***
Moving all gnome-cups-manager bugs to new product. Filter on Kjartan's spring cleaning.