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Re: Firefox Quits When Trying to Print



OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi  du mercredi 23 juin 2004, vers
13:19, Ed Sutherland <digital@twcny.rr.com> disait:

> Firefox 0.8 is acting oddly when trying to print with xprt-xprintorg
> installed. Here is the sequence of events:

> 1) boot system
> 2) type "xplsprinters" and get a list of printers (hp940c@:64,
> xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64).
> 3) start mozilla-firefox and pick hp940c@:64 as the printer.
> 4) a message appears saying pages are being sent.
> 5) mozilla-firefox shuts down. Nothing prints.
> 6) start firefox up again, but can't print -- choosing CTRL-P gets "No
> printers found." error.
> 7) type "xplsprinters" and get "no printers defined."
> 8) echo $XPSERVERLIST and get ":64"

> What's wrong? What's the fix? Thanks.

There is a bug in xprt-xprintorg server :
 <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252362>

A wok-around is to recompile the package with -O2 instead of -O3.
-- 
Test programs at their boundary values.
            - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)



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