[27020] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.32: firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Doshi)
Fri Dec 8 16:26:33 2006
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:27:26 -0500
From: Peter Doshi <pnd@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Hi Robert,
No, I am aware of the problems with lotis. This is unrelated, as
the firefox/solaris printing problem I described has been ongoing
for over a month.
I have edited the properties of the print dialog in firefox/solaris
to read "lp -Ppicus2 ...", but no printjob spools. Could the
extraneous info in the lp command (it's there by default) by messing
things up?
To get around this, I typically "print to file", convert ps2pdf,
then print the PDF from gpdf or acroview.
- Peter
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:07:57 -0500
Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Peter Doshi wrote:
>
> > System name: e51-075-8.mit.edu
>
> >
> > What were you trying to do?
> > Print from firefox on Solaris.
> >
> > What's wrong:
> > never prints, nor does it even enter the queue
>
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for your bug report. Were you trying to print to
> the printer named "lotis" (which is the default printer for
> e51-075-8)? I noticed that spooling is currently disabled
> for that printer, and it appears that firefox does not report
> any error when it fails to spool the print request.
>
> Printing from firefox should work fine on Solaris when the
> desired printer is enabled.
>
> Thanks again for reporting this.
>
>
>
> Robert Basch
> Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
> Information Services & Technology
>
>
>
