adding or preferences crash

Here's the backtrace from gnome-cups-add

I'm also getting those errors so i changed the status of this bug to confirmed. Please take note that i've also got a installed Epson DX Printer but i don't think that might be the cause for our troubles here. If i can be of any assistance please let me know by e-mail.

It does not crash here, so it must be something printer specific. Can you please try to get a backtrace with debugging information as described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash ?

Thank you!

I am seeing the same behaviour: crash of gnome-cups-add at "reading the printer database" message.

attached is the backtrace after following the procedure in the wiki. hope this helps.

Martin Pitt <email address hidden> writes:

> It does not crash here, so it must be something printer specific.

I don't see how, since it happens with no printer attached after
purging everything that looked relevant and then re-installing.

> Can
> you please try to get a backtrace with debugging information as
> described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash ?

I'll see what I can do, though I'm not very enthusiastic about what I
suspect that involves for gnome stuff.

OK, it turns out not to be as bad to build as I feared.

This fixes the segv due to ppd_filename not containing a slash (though
basename is only used in the commented-out following printf). It's
from a Debian or Ubuntu patch that's not mentioned in changelog.

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 12:41 +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> OK, it turns out not to be as bad to build as I feared.
>
> This fixes the segv due to ppd_filename not containing a slash (though
> basename is only used in the commented-out following printf). It's
> from a Debian or Ubuntu patch that's not mentioned in changelog.

I sure am glad you read gdb because it's all G(r)eek to me ;)

I wrote:

> This fixes the segv due to ppd_filename not containing a slash

Sigh. Launchpad has stripped the patch from my mail. I'll upload it
separately.

This is what I tried to mail before.

peter <email address hidden> writes:

> I sure am glad you read gdb because it's all G(r)eek to me ;)

For what it's worth, I debugged it before seeing your backtrace.

[What the debugging instructions don't tell you is how you might guess
which package is the relevant one to rebuild in case the crash is due
to a library, which is potentially non-trivial.]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:35 +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> ** Attachment added: "missing patch"

Right on. How might this be applied, or might there be a fresh binary
package forthcoming ?

Thanks, Dave!

 gnome-cups-manager (0.31-1.1ubuntu9) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/gutenprint_driver_name.diff: Do not crash if a PPD file
     name does not contain a '/'. Thanks to Dave Love for debugging this and
     the patch. Closes: LP#43416

This has fixed the reported behaviour for me. Thanks.