[PLUG] Firefox Lost Printers

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jan 13 19:44:52 UTC 2014


On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Daniel Hedlund wrote:

> Have you restarted firefox since restarting cups? If Firefox's GTK backend
> can't connect to CUPS, it'll either cause the printer dialogue to freeze
> Firefox or return no results (just print to file, depending on the version
> of either Firefox or GTK).

Daniel,

   Just restarted CUPS, killed firefox, and re-invoked it. Still cannot see
any printers.

> Try running Firefox from the command line,

   Nada. Firefox loads and there's nothing on the console.

> Ensure dbus is running.

   Yep:

[root at salmo ~]# ps ax | grep dbus
  1781 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
  8467 tty1     S      0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch e1c9ede68476c2f5e70d50874983a375 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
  8468 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
11936 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep dbus

Rich




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