459199 - Printing broken under Linux

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Setup, defect)

Description

[J S]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); pl-PL;; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092700 SUSE/3.0.3-2.2 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); pl-PL;; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092700 SUSE/3.0.3-2.2 Firefox/3.0.3

Recently I upgraded FF to 3.0.3 (earlier to 3.0.2) and noticed that printing is broken (not sure in which version). The printing window was changed from FF 3.0. The old window worked perfectly - I was able to select my printer from the list and print without any problems. Now, I can only choose "Print to file" or "Print to LPR" and specify the command line (lpr by default). Unfortunately, it doesn't work. No error message or anything like that - I get a window showing progress of sending data to the printer and nothing happens. When I run KJobViewer there are no new jobs, as though nothing was send to the printer.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I'm not aware of any changes on the 3.0 branch that could have regressed
this.  It seems more likely that it broke when you updated some Linux
package or that SUSE messed their version of Firefox 3.0.3 somehow.
Please report the problem to SUSE.

Comment 2

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

Just noticed this report. I've never seen this behaviour or got it reported.
The printing stuff changed between FF2 and FF3. The fact that it's more broken since 3.0 is another thing but not SUSE specific.