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From: Alejandro <elcorreodeale@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:13:48
Message-Id: 60a795cd0904291313s13ff7d2aj6d654fb671ba2cd3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler by Allan Gottlieb
1 2009/4/29 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
2
3 > At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200 Morten Holt <thawk@××××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Allan Gottlieb wrote:
6 > >> At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
7 > wrote:
8 > >>
9 > >>> For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working.
10 > >>> When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two),
11 > >>> the "print" button is greyed out. With "print to file", the button is
12 > >>> live and the pdf file is successfully created
13 > >>>
14 > >>> I can print via lpr.
15 > >>>
16 > >>> If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this
17 > machine),
18 > >>> I can print test pages to either machine.
19 > >>>
20 > >>> Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is
21 > >>> greyed out?
22 > >>
23 > >> Some further information.
24 > >> Evince has the same situation, "print" is greyed out.
25 > > Sounds like the same issue I have, do you get log entries like:
26 > > Request from "localhost" using invalid Host: field "::1"
27 > > in /var/log/cups/error_log?
28 > >
29 > > If you find a solution to this, please let me know here, I can't seem to
30 > > find a solution to the issue, and appearantly nobody has any ideas.
31 >
32 > Sorry I didn't notice your msg earlier.
33 > My issue was fixed with a version bump to cups.
34 > Do you still have trouble with 1.3.10-r1.
35 >
36 > allan
37 >
38 >
39 This is because cups start using ipv6 by default. Using your previous cuos
40 config should fix this.