system-config-printer.py crashed with FileNotFoundError in _execute_child(): [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: 'gpk-install-package-name'

Till, is that a missing depends on packagekit-gnome?

(in fact packagekit-gnome seems an old package in universe, we should perhaps find an alternative command to use)

Tim, it seems that "gpk-install-package-name" is some tool of packagekit-gnome which got deprecated in Ubuntu. Is there any chace to skip the use of the tool gracefully if it is not present, so that s-c-p in a non-Red-Hat environment will work smoothly?

It is used installpackage.py and newprinter.py.

After manualy installing smbclient (sudo apt-get install smbclient) problem is fixed

Seems that system-config-printer uses "gpk-install-package-name" to install smbclient if it is not already installed.

Tim, am I right? Is there a way to get rid of this? To get a way which works in non-Red-Hat environments (instead of simply make the s-c-p package depend on smbclient)?

Seb, would it be a problem to simply let s-c-p depend on smbclient?

"gpk-install-package-name" was removed from gnome-packagekit near one year ago:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-packagekit/commit/?id=bdeaf7f35511fa85d444deb9981d68e015acdea6

Tim, is Red Hat keeping it as a distro patch? Or is Red Hat using an old version of gnome-packagekit? Do you have any fix for the "gpk-install-package-name" calls in newprinter.py and installpackage.py?

Till, I've had this on my to-do list since comment #4, but it really is not top-priority for me. Please stop asking. :-)

I've pushed changes to 1.4.x to just remove that code (it's now just a stub).

If you'd like to re-implement it using asynchronous D-Bus calls to packagekitd, that would be useful.

Tim, thank you very much. I have applied this change and all of the simple bug fix patches on the GIT from after my last snapshot. This should fix this bug and several other bugs, especially also Python3 transition issues.

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.5.1+20141010-0ubuntu2

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system-config-printer (1.5.1+20141010-0ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/35_more-debugging-output.patch,
    debian/patches/37_debugging-tidy-ups.patch: Additional debug output
    in the "--debug" modes of system-config-printer and scp-dbus-service
    (backported from upstream GIT).
  * debian/patches/40_monitor-only-run-one-timer-at-a-time.patch: monitor:
    only run one timer at a a time, avoids 'Source ID ... was not found'
    warnings (backported from upstream GIT).
  * debian/patches/43_dont-ask-packagekit-to-look-for-drivers-for-empty-device-ids.patch:
    Don't ask PackageKit to look for drivers for empty device IDs (backported
    from upstream GIT).
  * debian/patches/45_use-items-instead-of-iteritems-in-groupphysicaldevicesrequests-group.patch:
    Use items() instead of iteritems() with Python 3 dicts, especially use
    items() instead of iteritems() in GroupPhysicalDevicesRequest's _group()
    (backported from upstream GIT).
  * debian/patches/47_fix-for-automatically-adding-bluetooth-printers.patch:
    Fix for automatically adding Bluetooth printers. devpath could have been
    NULL at this point. Found with static analysis (backported from upstream
    GIT).
  * debian/patches/50_dont-run-gpk-install-package-name-directly-use-installpackage-module.patch:
    Don't run gpk-install-package-name directly, use installpackage module
    (backported from upstream GIT).
  * debian/patches/53_make-installpackage-a-stub-only.patch: Make
    installpackage a stub only. gpk-install-* executables no longer exist
    (backported from upstream GIT, LP: #1366756).
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:46:36 +0200

system-config-printer 1.5.3+20141029 on Vivid does not only suppress the error message by taking out PackageKit-based package installation support but actually fixes the PackageKit-based package installation support and several other bugs in installation of missing printing stack packages for this functionality actually work again.

Uploaded a package fixing bug 1366756, bug 1156398, bug 1380514, and bug 1369789 to utopic-proposed. As soon as the package is approved it will be available for download and testing and instructions will get posted here. Please test the package and give your feedback here, otherwise it will not get available as official update.

To the SRU team: debdiff attached.

Hello puce, or anyone else affected,

Accepted system-config-printer into utopic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/1.5.1+20141010-0ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

could somebody verify that this stable update fixes the issue?

Puce, and anyone else having this problem, can you please test the proposed package? Thanks.

I have tested the automatic installation of smbclient if it is missing when creating a queue to an SMB printer ("smb://..." URI) and it works perfectly. I am also using the fixed Utopic package on my Trusty and Utopic machines and they do not show any sign of regression. Marking as verified.

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.5.1+20141010-0ubuntu2.1

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system-config-printer (1.5.1+20141010-0ubuntu2.1) utopic-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/60_newprinter-fix-package-installation.patch: Fixed several
    bugs in system-config-printers's facility to install missing packages of
    the printing stack (currently smbclient and libsane-hpaio. LP: #1366756).
  * debian/patches/63_ppdcache-return-exception-rather-than-looping.patch:
    Fixed infinite loop generating millions of links in /tmp when PPD file
    requested from a print queue is not readable (LP: #1156398).
  * debian/patches/65_fix-hp-fax-type-parsing.patch: Fix parsing of the HPLIP
    fax type (LP: #1369789).
  * debian/patches/67_jobviewer-always-fetch-auth-info-required-attribute.patch:
    jobviewer: Always fetch auth-info-required attribute (LP: #1380514).
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:21:36 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for system-config-printer has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.