OpenOffice.org does not detect printers added after its launch

Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.3-4
Followup-For: Bug #290016

I have no additional information, other than to confirm having the same
problem. I'm willing to provide additional details about my
configuration if someone can tell me where to look.

Thanks,

  Hein

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Debian Release: 3.1
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  APT policy: (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=no_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.24.5 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-4 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.3-3+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.3-4 English (US) language package for
ii openoffice.org-l10n-nb [openo 1.1.3-4 Norwegian Bokmal language package
ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.3-4 The OpenSymbol TrueType font

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Package: openoffice.org-gtk-gnome
Version: 1.1.3-4
Followup-For: Bug #290016

I experienced that when openoffice.org-gtk-gnome
is installed CUPS does not work.
Removing this package seems to fix the problem.
Best regards

G. L. Gragnani

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Debian Release: 3.1
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages openoffice.org-gtk-gnome depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.9.0-0ubuntu1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-7 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.1-3 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.1-1ubuntu2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.0-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6 4.6.2-2 STLport C++ class library
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-4 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

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Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.3-9
Followup-For: Bug #290016

The CUPS remote printer must be detected when OOo is launched, or the
printer will not be recognized until OOo is restarted. If the remote
printer is online before OOo is launched, all is fine.

On my network, OOo on computer A (sarge) prints to a remote printer on
computer B. As long as B is online when A is started and OOo is
started, printing is fine.

However if computer B is subsequently started after computer A, the
printer will not be visible to OOo in computer A.

$ lpstat -a on computer A correctly shows the remote printer status in
all cases, so the bug is in OOo and not in cupsys.

OOo apparently only checks for available printers at startup.

Hope this helps.

Hi all,

We have a small local net, with a CUPS server and a LTSP server with two
thin clients, and other two clients for CUPS server.

Openoffice don't detect CUPS printer.

Information of system:

CUPS server with Debian Sarge installed:

ii cupsys 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD
comman
ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
client pro
ii cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-10 Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
ii cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-10 Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
image libs
ii libcupsys2-gnu 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
rgomeza@vidfrio:~$ uname -a
Linux vidfrio 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

LTSP and two clients with SID installed, openoffice and cups packages:

ii openoffice.org-base 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite - database
ii openoffice.org-calc 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite - spreadsheet
ii openoffice.org-common 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite architecture ind
ii openoffice.org-core 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite architecture dep
ii openoffice.org-draw 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite - drawing
ii openoffice.org-impress 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite - presentation
ii openoffice.org-java-common 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite Java support arc
ii openoffice.org-kde 2.0.0-2 KDE
Integration for OpenOffice.org (Widgets,
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en-us 2.0.0-2
English_american language package for OpenOf
ii openoffice.org-l10n-es 2.0.0-2 Spanish
language package for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-math 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite - equation edito
ii openoffice.org-writer 2.0.0-2
OpenOffice.org office suite - word processor
ii python-uno 2.0.0-2 Python
interface for OpenOffice.org
rgomeza@aiser:~$ dpkg -l |grep -i cupsys
ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - client pro
ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - libs
rc libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.23-11 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - libs

In a quickly look for across bugs, I become to bug 2625999 [0] and
message from Vesa Savolainen.

I find psprint.conf into /etc/openoffice.org, change "Command=" for
"Command=/usr/bin/kprinter", we only use Kde, and for the moment all is ok.

I hope this helps, and sorry for my very bad english.

Salud y Revolución.

Lobo.

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=262599

Package: openoffice.org
Version: 2.0.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #290016

I have the same problem. Is it possible that OO.o looks for
/etc/printcap whereas the default Debian configurations in cupsd.conf is
to generate the printcap file as

Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap

/etc/printcap on my local system is an empty file.

Cheers,
Michael

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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r8
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii openoffice.org-base 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite - data
ii openoffice.org-calc 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite - spre
ii openoffice.org-core 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii openoffice.org-draw 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite - draw
ii openoffice.org-impress 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite - pres
ii openoffice.org-java-common 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite Java s
ii openoffice.org-math 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite - equa
ii openoffice.org-writer 2.0.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite - word

openoffice.org recommends no packages.

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reassign 290016 cupsys-bsd
thanks

Michael Biebl wrote:
> I have the same problem. Is it possible that OO.o looks for
> /etc/printcap whereas the default Debian configurations in cupsd.conf is
> to generate the printcap file as
>
> Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap
>
> /etc/printcap on my local system is an empty file.

I have /etc/printcap. With Cups. It's a symlink: (And I didn't create it
myself)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2005-12-23 23:47 /etc/printcap -> /var/run/cups/printcap
[ created by cupsys-bsds postinst afais ]

Anyway, grepping for printcap in OOos source gives me nothing so it must
be some cups problem that the link isn't there, reassigning....

Regards,

Rene

reassign 290016 openoffice.org
thanks

Rene Engelhard wrote:
> reassign 290016 cupsys-bsd
> thanks
>
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> I have the same problem. Is it possible that OO.o looks for
>> /etc/printcap whereas the default Debian configurations in cupsd.conf is
>> to generate the printcap file as
>>
>> Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap
>>
>> /etc/printcap on my local system is an empty file.
>
> I have /etc/printcap. With Cups. It's a symlink: (And I didn't create it
> myself)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2005-12-23 23:47 /etc/printcap -> /var/run/cups/printcap
> [ created by cupsys-bsds postinst afais ]
>
> Anyway, grepping for printcap in OOos source gives me nothing so it must
> be some cups problem that the link isn't there, reassigning....

I guess you are right, OOo does not parse /etc/printcap itself anymore,
it directly uses libcupsys to query for existing printers. My problem
was actually something else:
I very occasionally use the printer so I start cupsd on demand. If cupsd
is started after OOo has been started, OOo shows an empty printer list.
If I start cupsd in advance printing from OOo works perfectly.
So I'm reassigning this bug to OOo again as it obviously has problems if
cupsd is not already running on application startup. (Other applications
like kprinter don't have such a problems, they detect changes to the
printer spooling system instantenous).

Michael

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