Re: [SLE] LPRng and Mozilla - printing problem

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:12:13 +0200
To: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de>

Johannes Meixner wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Oct 28 18:26 Zvone Zagar wrote:
>
>
>>I use SuSE 9.1 on two machines. Today I have found an interesting issue. I
>>cannot print from Mozilla (regardless of version), FireFox or Opera (including
>>version 7.54 from opera.com) if I use LPRng. Using CUPS there is no problem.
>>But Netscape 7.1 and Konqueror don't complain.
>>In /var/log/messages is an entry: Dispatch_input: bad request line 'POST
>>/HTTP/1.1'.
>>If I start printing the named browsers stop. In Mozilla I tried the 'old'
>>print command lpr -Pprinter. The result is the same. As soon as I activate the
>>print command, Mozilla stops responding. When I run 'rcldp restart' the
>>browser responds again.
>>I must say that under SuSE 9.0 everything is OK.
>>Printing from CLI , OpenOffice.org and other applications presents no problem.
>>I would appreciate any clue.
>>
>>
>
>I am afraid I don't have any clue what is going on on your system.
>
>It seems somehow as if your Mozilla FireFox or Opera are linked
>with CUPS libraries or something like this but as far as I know
>neither Mozilla nor FireFox nor Opera are not linked with CUPS.
>Because you wrote "from opera.com":
>Do you use self-compiled versions of this browsers?
>Does it happen with the SUSE packages of this browsers too?
>
>How did you switch from CUPS to LPRng and vice versa?
>Do you know that cups-client and lprng conflict - see
>http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/09/jsmeix_print-einrichten-81.html
>
>What happens when you print from Mozilla FireFox or Opera into
>a file and then print this file by using "lpr" or "lp"?
>
>Did you re-start all the stuff (printing system and browsers)
>after you switched from CUPS to LPRng and vice versa?
>To be safe do a complete reboot at least for a test.
>
>
>Regards
>Johannes Meixner
>
>
Hi!,

Thanks for your answer. I am going to answer your questions. I do not
use self-compiled browsers.
I have installed Opera in two ways. First I have downloaded rpm file for
SuSE. In the second attempt I
have fetched 'tar.gz' and it has been installed using 'install.sh'
script. The outcome is the same.
I also must say that the 'box' version of Opera (7.23) does not print.
The Firefox was installed in similar way
(1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2-xft.installer.tar.gz file).
 
I switched between printing systems in the following way: Yast2 ->
Hardware -> Printer -> Change
-> Advanced -> LPRng. Then I gave 'init 3' and 'init 5' command.
As far as CUPS is concerned only cups-drivers and cups-libs are installed.
I cannot print to file. As soon as I choose 'File -> Print' command,
the browser stops. If I do 'rclpd restart',
the browser revives. Yes, I can print files from CLI using lpr. As I
have said, the other packages behave
normal.

The out of the box Mozilla also does not print. I have upgraded Mozilla
to 1.7.2 using SuSE rpms.
(ftp.gwdg.de)

I have even tried from different window managers (WindowMaker, Fvwm,
KDE). I did not reboot.
But I have noticed very strange behavior using 'rclpd restart' after
failed printing attempt.
The output: Fatal errot - cannot bind to lpd port '631' (CUPS has left
some tracks behind).
If retry 'rclpd stop' & 'rclpd start' the LPD daemon starts running

Here the out put of 'ps aux | tail -10 '

>root 25362 0.1 0.5 5100 2816 ? S 17:20 0:00 xclock -name FvwmXclock -geometry +0+0 -padding 1 -bg grey67
>root 25367 0.2 0.5 5056 2816 ? S 17:20 0:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager 13 4 none 0 8 0 0
>root 25368 0.0 0.2 2520 1172 pts/0 S+ 17:20 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/firefox-installer/firefox
>root 25380 0.0 0.2 2520 1188 pts/0 S+ 17:20 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/firefox-installer/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/firefox-installer/firefox-bin
>root 25385 13.3 4.7 44692 22780 pts/0 S+ 17:20 0:09 /usr/local/firefox-installer/firefox-bin
>root 25388 0.0 0.7 5536 3544 pts/0 S+ 17:20 0:00 /opt/gnome/lib/GConf/2/gconfd-2 9
>lp 517 30.0 0.2 2692 1320 ? Rs 17:21 0:06 lpd Waiting
>lp 6310 0.0 0.2 2692 1344 ? Rs 17:21 0:00 lpd SERVER
>root 6311 0.0 0.1 2164 692 tty1 R+ 17:21 0:00 ps aux
>root 6312 0.0 0.3 2656 1620 tty1 R+ 17:21 0:00 -bash
>
>
I even tried as a root. I know it does no matter, but nevertheless.
On Tuesday (at the office) I am going to install the clean 9.1 on
another PC.

Thanks again Zvone Zagar

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