xfprint4 issue

[Jean-François Wauthy]

Le vendredi 11 février 2005 à 10:02 -0500, Jason Keltz a écrit :
> Hi..
> 
> The output of lpq on our system is as follows:
> 
> Printer: csb2054 at silver (dest csb2054 at localhost) 'Research Master Queue (csb2054)' (subservers csb2054-1, csb2054-2)
>  Queue: no printable jobs in queue
>  Server: pid 32291 active
> Printer: csb2054-1 at silver  'Research Slave Queue (csb2054-1)'
>  Queue: 1 printable job
>  Server: pid 7932 active
>  Unspooler: pid 7933 active
>  Filter_status: Printing files: /tmp/ricoh.banner.7954.0 dfA186green.cs.yorku.ca
>  Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size Time
> active user1 at green+186           A   186 smbprn.002127.60aiHq824470 09:58:26
> Printer: csb2054-2 at silver  'Research Slave Queue (csb2054-2)'
>  Queue: 1 printable job
>  Server: pid 32292 active
>  Unspooler: pid 32293 active
>  Filter_status: Printing files: /tmp/ricoh.banner.32318.0 dfA812green.cs.yorku.ca
>  Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size Time
> stalled(1230sec) user2 at green+812  A   812 smbprn.002111.uUaaLb  5687 09:38:39
> 
> ---
> 
> This is an LPRng master/slave queue configuration.. is this confusing the
> BSD-LPR engine?
> 
oh yes ! :)

> How would the system get the printer list from this anyway?  (There are
> about 30 other printers in our dept.)
> 
BSD-LPR shows the list of all printers even if they haven't any job

> If there is a way for me to hack a specially crafted lpq to make this
> work, it would be great...
probably, but if you have coding skills you can start a LPRng module for
xfprint.

for more simplicity, can you fill a bug on bugs.xfce.org?
> 

> jas.
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Jean-Franois Wauthy wrote:
> 
> > Le jeudi 10 fvrier 2005  10:43 -0500, Jason Keltz a crit :
> > > Hi.
> > > I have a question re: xfprint4.
> > > If I call it up from the panel, it comes up fine, but if I try to click
> > > on the arrow to the right of the "Print to:" box which should list the
> > > available printers, the entire environment (Xfce et all) hangs until I
> > > go to another machine, login to the machine running Xfce and kill the
> > > xfprint4 program.  Does anyone else experience this? What might the
> > > problem be?
> > >
> > strange but may be related to the way xfprint gets his printer list in
> > BSD-LPR mode (see below)
> >
> > > Also -- if I try to run xfprint4 from the command line, I get:
> > > (xfprint4:20441): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon
> > > 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme
> > > was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
> > > You can get a copy from:
> > >          http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases
> > >
> > > What is this about?
> > >
> > i'm not the icon-theme guru but i think it's unrelated
> >
> > > I have gone into the settings manager, and selected BSD-LPR as the print
> > > system type.  There doesn't seem to be any information in the docs on
> > > where xfprint gets its printer list from.
> > >
> > it simply parses the output of lpq, if the parsing fails for any reason
> > it can cause xfprint to hang out (post your lpq output please)
> >
> > > Thanks for any help you can provide ..
> > >
> > > Jason.
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> > Jean-Franois Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
> >
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