Problem setting up printer on FC3

Adam Mercer ramercer at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 22:28:19 UTC 2004


Hi

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.

Running system-config-printer from the command line I get the following error

[ram at skymoo ~]$ system-config-printer
sh: line 1:  5375 Segmentation fault      perl -e
'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print $result' 2>/dev/null
</dev/usb/lp0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 580, in new_button_clicked
    self.addQueue.addQueueDruid ()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/addQueue.py", line 248, in addQueueDruid
    self.populate_device_view ()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/addQueue.py", line 468, in
populate_device_view
    self.local_devs = self.parent.conf.scan_local_printer_devices (force)
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1265, in
scan_local_printer_devices
    local_printer_devices.device_dict[dev].update(autodetect_usb_printer(dev,
i))
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1392, in
autodetect_usb_printer
    return { "auto" : auto }
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'auto' referenced before assignment

and running system-config-printer-tui from the command line I get the following

[ram at skymoo ~]$ system-config-printer-tui
Initializing alchemist edit environment ...
Initializing linux printing database ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-printer-tui", line 8, in ?
    printconf_tui.startup_and_find_cmd()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 2412, in
startup_and_find_cmd
    main.cmd_handlers[cmd]()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 1993, in tui_main_run
    qld_run()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 1857, in qld_run
    if nqd_run():
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 157, in nqd_run
    nqd_typedata_run()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 405, in
nqd_typedata_run
    nqd.typedata.handlers[nqd.queue_type_space]()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 422, in
nqd_typedata_local_run
    local_devices = scan_local_printer_devices(force = 1)
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1265, in
scan_local_printer_devices
    local_printer_devices.device_dict[dev].update(autodetect_usb_printer(dev,
i))
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 1392, in
autodetect_usb_printer
    return { "auto" : auto }

Any one have any ideas what is going wrong here and how to fix it?

Cheers

Adam




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