Comment 33 for bug 1133794

From memory,

do we not run avhi daemon as it was considered 'one more daemon lubuntu
does not need to run at start up'.... This may be worth mentioning in the
notes somewhere, but IIRC, it is not a bug.

Regards,

Phill.

On 19 July 2013 05:39, Jonathan Marsden <email address hidden> wrote:

> Solution #25 (hack the config file) will not detect network printers out
> there on your LAN automatically, of course, which solution #23 (adding
> avahi-daemon) will, if they speak the avahi/bonjour protocol.
>
> "Best" is always subjective. My thinking is that adding avahi-daemon is
> the most functionally complete workaround we have.
>
> Incidentally, why is your Launchpad login so amazingly long and complex?
> :) It means you can't easily print up business cards with your
> Launchpad page URL on them, because it won't fit:
>
>
> https://launchpad.net/~78luphr0rnk2nuqimstywepozxn9kl19tqh0tx66b5dki1xxsh5mkz9gl21a5rlwfnr8jn6ln0m3jxne2k9x1ohg85w3jabxlrqbgszpjpwcmvkbcvq9spp6z3w5j1
> -c9zcy2w6n-
>
> a811i2i3ytqlsztthjth0svbccw8inm65tmkqp9sarr553jq53in4xm1m8wn3o4rlwaer06ogwvqwv9mrqoku2x334n7di44o65qze67n1wneepmidnuwnde1rqcbp
>
> Compare that with mine:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~jmarsden
>
> Jonathan
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1133794
>
> Title:
> Printer not detected by system-config-printer 1.3.11 in Lubuntu 13.04
>
> Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “lubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “system-config-printer” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in “cups” source package in Raring:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “lubuntu-meta” source package in Raring:
> Invalid
> Status in “system-config-printer” source package in Raring:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> 1) Raring daily Lubuntu 13.04 i386
> 2) system-config-printer 1.3.11
> 3) I expected the printer to be detected without a cups error. The
> printer was not detected.
> 4)
> 1) When selecting Printer from the System Tools menu the
> Printers-localhost dialog box appears with the following message.
> 'Printing service not available. Start the service on this computer or
> connect to another server.'
> 2) After clicking the connect button once the 'Connect to CUPS server'
> box appears.
> 3) After clicking the connect button on this message box the Cups
> server error box appears with the following dialog.
> There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'failed to connect to
> server'.
>
> [IMPACT]
>
> As the standard installation of Lubuntu does not include avahi-daemon
> CUPS does not get started as the Upstart script for CUPS requires
> avahi-daemon to be started first. Therefore there is no printing
> functionality for Lubuntu users even with the printing stack being
> installed by default.
>
> [TESTCASE]
>
> Do a standard installation of Lubuntu and run
>
> lpstat -r
>
> in a terminal. The CUPS daemon is not running.
>
> The proposed package adds a dependency to the cups-daemon binary
> package pulling in avahi-daemon and so CUPS will start during boot.
> Check with
>
> lpstat -r
>
> in a terminal window.
>
> [Regression Potential]
>
> Low. An additional package gets installed, but this package is already
> well-known and work well in other Ubuntu flavors.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
> Package: system-config-printer-gnome 1.3.11+20120807-0ubuntu13
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.15-generic 3.8.0
> Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: i386
> CasperVersion: 1.330
> CurrentDmesg:
>
> Date: Wed Feb 27 01:04:06 2013
> ExecutablePath: /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
> LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130226)
> Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat:
> Transport endpoint is not connected
> MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> MarkForUpload: True
> PackageArchitecture: all
> Papersize: a4
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcKernelCmdLine: initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed
> boot=casper quiet splash -- persistent BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern
> SourcePackage: system-config-printer
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> dmi.bios.date: 08/04/2005
> dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: 1024.001
> dmi.board.name: P4C800-E
> dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
> dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
> dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
> dmi.chassis.type: 3
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
> dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1024.001:bd08/04/2005:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnP4C800-E:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
> dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>
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