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Re: Bug#520085: problem is a mismatch between iceweasel and cups configuration



reassign 520085 libcups2
thanks

Le samedi 19 décembre 2009 à 19:52 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : 
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:16:10PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.0.12-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > The problem is that iceweasel is trying to get the cups printer list
> > by connecting to /var/run/cups/cups.sock.  If cupsd isn't configured
> > to listen with
> > 
> > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> > 
> > in /etc/cupsd.conf, iceweasel won't get any printer information back.
> > 
> > The distributed cupsd.conf now includes this line, but some of us with
> > older cups installations didn't end up with the change when we got
> > careless on an upgrade (that's what happened to me).  While this is
> > admittedly  user error, it seems reasonable to also try to connect
> > on :631
> 
> Iceweasel doesn't connect to cups.sock by itself, AFAICS.
> It apparently delegates that to gtk. I don't know what happens from
> there. The gtk+ maintainers may know better.

From what I can tell, GTK+ directly relies on libcups to DTRT. So if a
fallback needs to be implemented, I guess it should be implemented in
libcups itself.

Cheers, 
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling

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