Re: printing with firefox3?

[Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost>]

That makes me somewhat less sure of my proposed solution!

Do you have /usr/pkg/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so ?

Can you send the output of "thread apply all bt" in gdb of a core dump ?

Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:49:53 +0200
> Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > The & before data is definitely wrong; I'm surprised it doesn't
> > > crash cups.  I confess I fail to see how that could crash firefox3
> > > unless there's another problem -- timing? -- firefox3.
> > Firefox3 now uses gtk for the print dialog, which has a CUPS backend
> > which leads to this code in libcups.
> That doesn't show up in any dependencies I see here:
>
> # pkgdepgraph -D -O cups
> claws-mail-gtkhtml2_viewer-0.22nb1
> evince-2.24.2nb3
> gutenprint-lib-5.2.3
> gv-3.6.3nb1
> latex2html-2002.2.1nb7
> openoffice3-3.0.0nb7
> html2ps-1.0b4nb4
> libspectre-0.2.2
> ghostscript-8.63nb1
> cups-1.3.9
>
> I see that gtk2 has an options for cups, but I don't have it set:
>
> # cd -
> /usr/pkgsrc/x11/gtk2
> # make show-options     
> Any of the following general options may be selected:
>         cups     Enable cups (Common UNIX Printing System) support.
>         debug    Enable debugging facilities in the package.
>         jasper   Enable JPEG 2000 support using the jasper library.
> Exactly one of the following gdk-target options is required:
>         x11      Enable X11 support.
>
> These options are enabled by default:
>         x11
>
> These options are currently enabled:
>         x11
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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Kind regards,

Yorick Hardy