198066 - printing does not work anymore

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195065

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[beanladen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Solaris 7; en-US; rv:1.3)

Any attempts to print something or even bring up the print dialogs on 
Solaris 8 with recent 1.3 Solaris 7 build fails with 'No printers found'.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start Mozilla
2.press any button or menu that deals with printing


Actual Results:  
Window : No printers found
Window : printing failed 

Expected Results:  
bring up a print dialog
print something !!


This works with Linux build 1.3 . On both Linux and Solaris, xprint is not 
installed. It worked with 1.1 and some intermediate builds. Tried setting
MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST, print.printer_list, print.use_native_dialog 
and some similar settings, no reaction.

Is xprint now mandatory (=> no remark on this in the release notes) ? If yes, 
why does it work on Linux without xprint ? If not, is it assumed by default ? 
If yes, how to disable it and return to the old driver (=> no hints in the 
release notes) ?

Release 1.3 is useless without printing and should be immediately updated 
(1.3.1) !
Note: there are bugs with Windows with recent comments that this is broken
there too, so OS maybe ALL except Linux.

Comment 1

[beanladen]

Platform Solaris 8/SPARC (the bug form should be enhanced to include these
options !)

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

doesn't block development = no blocker-> major loss of function= major

>MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST
The solaris build is contributed and the contributor build without PS support
(but with xprint).

solution:
Bug the contributor, install xprint or build yourself.

Read bug 195065 for more informations

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195065 ***