[27555] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: cups-lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon May 23 20:17:58 2011
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 20:17:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
To: alexp@mit.edu
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The real bug here is that lpr breaks -- without the wrapper we can't
control what printers are seen or not seen. We can sanitize Python paths
in the wrapper if necessary; what's the exact error?
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Mon, 23 May 2011, alexp@MIT.EDU wrote:
> System name: pavane
> Type: i686
> Display type: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh (?)
> Window manager: unknown
>
> What were you trying to do?
> use cups-lpr on a 32 bit machine to print a file
>
> What's wrong:
> it's broken:
>
> dr-wily:Mon athena% setenv PRINTER leander
> dr-wily:Mon athena% cups-lpr test.txt
> cups-lpr: Error - PRINTER environment variable names non-existent destination "leander"!
> dr-wily:Mon athena% cups-lpr -Pmark-the-great test.txt
> dr-wily:Mon athena% cups-lpr -Phero test.txt
> cups-lpr: The printer or class was not found.
>
> lpr has no problem with all these printers. The reason I'm using cups-lpr, by
> the way, is to make printing work in Tecplot. The application sets Python
> paths in a way that breaks lpr printing.
>
> What should have happened:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
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