retitle 520085 libcups: fall back to connecting to localhost:631 when cups.sock is absent severity 520085 wishlist tags 520085 + upstream quit
Josselin Mouette wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:16:10PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>> The problem is that iceweasel is trying to get the cups printer list >>> by connecting to /var/run/cups/cups.sock. If cupsd isn't configured >>> to listen with >>> >>> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock >>> >>> in /etc/cupsd.conf, iceweasel won't get any printer information back. >>> >>> The distributed cupsd.conf now includes this line, but some of us with >>> older cups installations didn't end up with the change when we got >>> careless on an upgrade (that's what happened to me). While this is >>> admittedly user error, it seems reasonable to also try to connect >>> on :631 [...] > From what I can tell, GTK+ directly relies on libcups to DTRT. So if a > fallback needs to be implemented, I guess it should be implemented in > libcups itself. Thanks. Axel, Joe, et al: if you're interested in pursuing this, please file a report at http://cups.org/str.php?U, and let us know the bug number so we can track it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org