[arch-general] Any printer didn't work

Bastien Traverse neitsab at esrevart.net
Tue Feb 10 16:46:43 UTC 2015


> When add printer manually on cinnamon.
> The printer found, forward , search driver and freeze.
> 
> When add printer manually on KDE.
> The printer found, show "Pcik a Driver" and said
> "Failed to search for recommended: driver: 'Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked tthe reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.'

Hi, there is currently a critical bug preventing from adding a printer
in the latest versions of cups: see FS#42666 [1].

To summarize, when trying to find a driver `foomatic list` stalls,
hogging up the CPU and `cupsd -l` does the same.

See the provided link for upstream bug report URL (they say they can't
reproduce it although it affects many Arch users) and link to discussion
in the forums.

I am currently unable to use any printer either :-/

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42666


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