Printer setup headache

Jim binarynut at comcast.net
Tue Mar 19 12:55:11 UTC 2013


On 03/19/2013 08:34 AM, Jim wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 11:40 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> On 3/18/13, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Then why is this same driver crashing on some Fedora installs but not
>>> others.
>>> I have talk to Samsung and they don't see any problems.
>>> I firmly believe it is a problem between  fedora and setup.
>> Are they running the same version of Fedora?  Your syslog indicates
>> the crash is happening somewhere in glibc.  There's a chance there's a
>> regression in glibc (though when the blame lies between some binary
>> driver and a core system library that's exihibiting no other problems,
>> I tend to blame the former first).  If you can figure out what version
>> of glibc breaks it, you could file a bug against glibc and maybe get
>> it fixed.
>>
>> A stack trace would be really useful here, but getting one when its a
>> CUPS filter that's crashing is tricky.  Sadly it seems abrt is
>> throwing away the coredump because the crashing binary doesn't belong
>> to a RPM package.  :-(
>>
>> -T.C.
> 1. I'm using glibc-2.16-28.fc18 on a PC , and this is the box that 
> won't print, used same install DVD.
>
> 2  I'm using glibc-2.16-28.fc18 on a Mini-Laptop that is using same 
> install DVD, and install of printer went off with no errors , it 
> prints without any errors.
Something else I noticed, the Printer Queue does not come up in Tray 
when doing a print job.


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