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Bug#758765: marked as done (cups: phantom printer in GUI list can't be removed)

Your message dated Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:59:49 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#758765: cups: phantom printer in GUI list can't be removed
has caused the Debian Bug report #758765,
regarding cups: phantom printer in GUI list can't be removed
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
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

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
> Any clues?  Since KDE apps don't seem to be affected, could it be a
> problem in Gnome/GTK3? (if so, then where exactly?) 

There isn't a single bit of evidence to indicate that cups is involved in
this behaviour. Nothing in lpstat; nothing in /etc/cups or /var/spool; no
way of replicating it. The best that could be suggested is to test with
unstable but what the starting point would be I do not know.

Hence closing this report. With something definite which could be ascribed
to cups it could be resubmitted or reopened.

Regards,

Brian.

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