As of these versions, gnome-control-center and system-config-printer no longer segfault on printer add. I receive an error popup "Failed to add new printer." instead. I'm also able to add discovered network printers via system-config-printers (even though it takes about 5 minutes to do driver lookups). No crash is good!
gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu44 system-config-printer-gnome: Installed: 1.4.2+20130920-0ubuntu1 Would you prefer this bug be resolved and a new one opened for the printer install errors, or leave this one open? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-config-printer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1237527 Title: gnome-control-center segfault on network printer add Status in “system-config-printer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When trying to add a network printer, gnome-control-center will segfault. Steps to reproduce: 1) Open gnome-control-center, click "Printers". 2) Click "Add New Printer" 3) Wait for network printers to populate the list 4) Select printer, eg FS-C5150DN, click "Add". 5) segfault (or presented with "Printers" is not responding force quit dialogue) This is not limited to just a Kyocera printer, Brother and HP both If I run from the command line: :~$ gnome-control-center (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/bin/scp-dbus-service exited with status 1 (gnome-control-center:4960): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: Failed to get session bus: (null) (gnome-control-center:4960): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: Installation of the new printer failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) I'll spin up a vm w/ a clean install to confirm. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu43 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.18-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 9 13:11:17 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-01 (8 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130930) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1 --- ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-09 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131009) MarkForUpload: True Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu43 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.18-generic 3.11.3 Tags: saucy Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1237527/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp