On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:28:40 -0600, Sam Williams sam-williams@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