tags 574637 + patch forwarded 574637 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/299074 thanks
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:41:08PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > > Hi. > > I've tried and configure a Canon imagerunner 3225 printer using > system-config-printer, and get the following traces : > > raceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/system-config-printer", line 4317, in > on_tvNPModels_cursor_changed > self.fillDriverList(self.NPMake, pmodel) > File "/usr/bin/system-config-printer", line 4280, in fillDriverList > self.NPDrivers = self.ppds.orderPPDNamesByPreference(ppds.keys()) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/cupsutils/ppds.py", line 378, in > orderPPDNamesByPreference > ppdnamelist.sort (sort_ppdnames) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/cupsutils/ppds.py", line 356, in > sort_ppdnames > ca = is_C_locale (a) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/cupsutils/ppds.py", line 342, in > is_C_locale > elif x[i - 1] not in string.letters: > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xaa in position 52: > unexpected code byte > > It seems this can be solved by simply applying the following patch (available in upstream most recent version) : --- /usr/share/pyshared/cupsutils/ppds.py~ 2009-06-17 10:52:03.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/pyshared/cupsutils/ppds.py 2010-03-19 17:19:06.000000000 +0100 @@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ # Prefer C locale localized PPDs to other languages, # just because we don't know the user's locale. def is_C_locale (x): - while x: + try: + while x: i = x.find ("C") if i == -1: return False @@ -352,6 +353,8 @@ return True x = x[i + 1:] + except UnicodeDecodeError: + return False ca = is_C_locale (a) cb = is_C_locale (b) Thanks for updating the package or applying this patch. FYI, there's a similar upstream bug, I think : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/299074 Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org