Major Printing issue in FC8

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 12:54 -0500, Gary Waters wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is a newbie question. Please be gentle. Any help would be
> appreciated in resolving this issue. For some reason whenever I'd try
> to print, the printing interface ( with my printers and "print to
> pf" ) would pop up ( in gnome), I'd choose a printer and it would
> hang/lockup. This started today. Everything was fine on Friday. When I
> open up a console and type:  
> 
> system-config-printer
> 
> I got the following error message after doing cntrl +c: 
I don't undestand  why you  typed ctrl-c . Did the
system-configure-printer hang?

In  any  case I would use the cups web interface to configure your
printers (loghost:631).
Report back what happens.
> 
> $ system-config-printer
> ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
> 
> [GSW at localhost ~]$   File
> "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line
> 1624, in on_tvMainList_cursor_changed
>     self.fillPrinterTab(name)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py",
> line 1661, in fillPrinterTab
>     self.ppd = printer.getPPD()
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/cupshelpers.py", line 147, in
> getPPD
>     filename = self.connection.getPPD(self.name)
> KeyboardInterrupt
> The application 'system-config-printer.py' lost its connection to the
> display :0.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> 
> I reinstalled cups for the heck of it and now get this error when I
> use the same approach:
> 
> system-config-printer
> ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py",
> line 3732, in <module>
>     
> [GSW at localhost ~]$ main(start_printer, change_ppd)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py",
> line 3705, in main
>     mainwindow = GUI(start_printer, change_ppd)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py",
> line 502, in __init__
>     self.populateList(start_printer, change_ppd)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py",
> line 762, in populateList
>     self.on_tvMainList_cursor_changed(self.tvMainList)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py",
> line 1624, in on_tvMainList_cursor_changed
>     self.fillPrinterTab(name)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py",
> line 1661, in fillPrinterTab
>     self.ppd = printer.getPPD()
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/cupshelpers.py", line 147, in
> getPPD
>     filename = self.connection.getPPD(self.name)
> KeyboardInterrupt
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
> 
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