Bug#758765: cups: phantom printer in GUI list can't be removed
Package: cups
Version: 1.7.5-1
Severity: normal
A phantom printer appears in the printer list of my GUI applications
e.g. in evince and gimp and iceweasel, but curiously not in
LibreOffice or karbon or konquerer.
I call it "phantom" because it does not appear in the admin printer
list, not in Gnome settings, nor in http://localhost:631/admin/. It is
not listed in the "Discovered Network Printers" of
http://localhost:631/admin/.
Nor does this printer appear at the command line (lpstat -v or
lpstat -a).
The name of the phantom printer does match one which I have had
configured in the past, but later removed. I can't find any current
reference to it in config files at /etc/cups or /var/spool.
It's quite annoying since if it "doesn't exist", then I can't remove
it.
If it is the ghost of that old printer, why is it still haunting me?
Any clues? Since KDE apps don't seem to be affected, could it be a
problem in Gnome/GTK3? (if so, then where exactly?)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii cups-client 1.7.5-1
ii cups-common 1.7.5-1
ii cups-core-drivers 1.7.5-1
ii cups-daemon 1.7.5-1
ii cups-filters 1.0.57-1
ii cups-ppdc 1.7.5-1
ii cups-server-common 1.7.5-1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.53
ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-9.1
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-4
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-4
ii libc-bin 2.19-9
ii libc6 2.19-9
ii libcups2 1.7.5-1
ii libcupscgi1 1.7.5-1
ii libcupsimage2 1.7.5-1
ii libcupsmime1 1.7.5-1
ii libcupsppdc1 1.7.5-1
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-7
ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-7
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.19-1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13
ii poppler-utils 0.26.3-1
ii procps 1:3.3.9-7
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-4
ii colord 1.2.1-1
ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.0.57-1
ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.10-3
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.7.5-1
ii cups-pdf 2.6.1-9
ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db] 20140730-1
ii hplip 3.14.6-1
ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.14.6-1
ii smbclient 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
ii udev 208-7
-- debconf information:
* cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
* cupsys/raw-print: false
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