Problem setting up printer on FC3

[Adam Mercer]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:28:40 -0600, Sam Williams
<sam-williams at insightbb.com> wrote:

> > > 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.
>
> Adam it looks like the underlying python code that is used to autodetect
> the usb printer has what looks to be a syntax problem. I would suspect
> that isn't the case, but that is the indication. BTW, both the gui and
> tui based sysconfig-printer  tools will use the same python code, so
> there generally won't be much difference in behavior.
> 
> Since the OS was installed have you tried to up2date / yum / apt-get any
> upgrades. I don't specifically recall seeing this error anywhere, but
> you should try that first to see if there was a bug fix reported and
> fixed. If there has been no correction for the problem you will want to
> report the problem in bugzilla for the developers to consider. Make sure
> you add all hardware and software information that you can provide.

Hi

The following morning from sending that email I logged in and was
greeted by a pop-up telling me that eggcups had crashed (along with
gnome-volume-manager, or something like that) and did I want to
restart the application. No matter how many times I clicked on the
restart application button the pop-up kept coming back.

After a through look on the gnome bugzilla I found the following

http://bugzilla-test.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151307

specially comment 13 (prelink /usr/lib/libdbus*so), running this
solved both problems that I was having. system-config-printer now
works fine.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

Cheers

Adam