Problem setting up printer on FC3

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 17:28, Adam Mercer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Just installed FC3 and I am having some problems setting up my
> printer, a Lexmark Optra E312. On running system-config-printer, I
> click on New, a little box pops up saying "Loading Printer Information
> Please Wait..." and then disappears.  Then the egg timer mouse cursors
> just sits there and the setup program does nothing.
> 
> Running system-config-printer from the command line I get the following error
> 
> [ram at skymoo ~]$ system-config-printer
> sh: line 1:  5375 Segmentation fault      perl -e
> 'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print $result' 2>/dev/null
> </dev/usb/lp0
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 580, in new_button_clicked
>     self.addQueue.addQueueDruid ()
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/addQueue.py", line 248, in addQueueDruid
>     self.populate_device_view ()
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/addQueue.py", line 468, in
> populate_device_view
>     self.local_devs = self.parent.conf.scan_local_printer_devices (force)
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1265, in
> scan_local_printer_devices
>     local_printer_devices.device_dict[dev].update(autodetect_usb_printer(dev,
> i))
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1392, in
> autodetect_usb_printer
>     return { "auto" : auto }
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'auto' referenced before assignment
> 
> and running system-config-printer-tui from the command line I get the following
> 
> [ram at skymoo ~]$ system-config-printer-tui
> Initializing alchemist edit environment ...
> Initializing linux printing database ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/system-config-printer-tui", line 8, in ?
>     printconf_tui.startup_and_find_cmd()
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 2412, in
> startup_and_find_cmd
>     main.cmd_handlers[cmd]()
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 1993, in tui_main_run
>     qld_run()
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 1857, in qld_run
>     if nqd_run():
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 157, in nqd_run
>     nqd_typedata_run()
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 405, in
> nqd_typedata_run
>     nqd.typedata.handlers[nqd.queue_type_space]()
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 422, in
> nqd_typedata_local_run
>     local_devices = scan_local_printer_devices(force = 1)
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1265, in
> scan_local_printer_devices
>     local_printer_devices.device_dict[dev].update(autodetect_usb_printer(dev,
> i))
>   File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1392, in
> autodetect_usb_printer
>     return { "auto" : auto }
> 
> Any one have any ideas what is going wrong here and how to fix it?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam

Adam,

No idea, but you can get at the printer configuration thru cups' web
interface at http://localhost:631.  Go to manage printers and click the
Add Printer button.  Use root when requested.

BTW:  There was some traffic on one of the Fedora lists yesterday
indicating that problems with system-config-printer running on some
H/W.  It was not very specific, but there may be something in the
archives.

Bob...
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