F7 system-config-printer, can't change server settings

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sat Jun 9 14:18:58 UTC 2007


Hi Jim,
I don't have an Internet printer but I will go back to Fedora 7 and try 
to set it up to print to my Brother HL-1440 Laser Printer. Then report 
to you what happened.

Karl




Jim Hayward wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was trying to share a printer on my system, but system-config-printer
> will not accept the changes.
>
> I run system-config-printer, select Server Settings, select Share
> published printers connected to this system, then click apply. The
> change is never made. I apparently can't change any of the other Server
> setting either.
>
> I ran system-config-printer from the command line looking for error
> messages and I see this..
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 1099, in on_btnApply_clicked
>     err = self.apply()
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 1110, in apply
>     return self.save_serversettings()
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 3109, in save_serversettings
>     self.cups.adminSetServerSettings(setting_dict)
> RuntimeError: Failed to set settings
>
> I don't remember having a problem with this on FC6. I was able to share
> printers without problems. Can anyone else reproduce this on F7 x86_64?
> I checked bugzilla, but I don't see any bug reports filed for this
> issue.
>
>
> Regards,
> 	Jim H
>   




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