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Re: More FF3 printing bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Thu Jan 15 00:21:58 2009
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:21:08 -0500
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
> Apparently, when printing from FF3, the job does not actually end
> up in the queue until you close the browser window.
Ugh. This looks like a bug in the gtk2 lpr backend library
used by Firefox (via the evolution28-gtk2 RPM). The parent
is apparently not closing the write side of the pipe, whose
read side is lpr's standard input.
I believe this bug has been fixed in upstream GNOME (see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390159), and reported
to Red Hat (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456942),
but the latter has been classified as low priority, so I would
not be optimistic about the fix appearing in an RHEL-4 update
RPM any time soon. We will consider our other options...
Thanks,
Bob
