My CUPS installation is completely broken. I erased all CUPS related folders and unmerged gutenprint footmatic etc.. then re-emerged CUPS, but nothing changed. First of all, a strange behaviour occurs on the web interface. The home page displays correctly. However, the administration page's title is shown as {title} so as the rest... (I'll attach screenshots.) Any setting changed in the administration page's "Server" section is absolutely not saved when "Change Settings" button pressed. When I try to add any kind of printer, over network or local one, the setup procedure enters in a infinite loop. It asks me again and again to enter the printer's URI even if I had done it corectly. The automatic printer discovery seems to work, it correctly lists the attached printers (Network or local); but again above mentioned infinite loop problem occurs and eventually it is not possible to add a printer. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 189565 [details] CUPS broken printer setup procedure step by step.
Portage 2.2_rc30 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.29 i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -Os -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -fPIC -DPIC -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -Os -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -fPIC -DPIC -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ " LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="tr en en_GB en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gnome /usr/portage/local/layman/x11 /usr/portage/local/layman/nx /usr/portage/local/layman/jmd-gentoo" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avahi avi berkdb bluetooth bonobo branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdr clamav cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran freetype gdbm gif gimp gjc glib glibc-omitfp gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal httpd iconv iptc ipv6 irda isdnlog java jpeg jpg lcms ldap libnotify lirc live mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mod modplug mono mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvtv objc ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcm pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdl server session shout skins snmp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream svg svga sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads tiff tracker truetype twolame unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vcdx videos vlm vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x2g4 x86 xcb xine xinerama xml xmp xorg xosd xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="tr en en_GB en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= net-print/cups-1.3.10 was built with the following: USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python samba slp ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW" CFLAGS="-DLDAP_DEPRECATED -DPIC -Os -fPIC -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-DLDAP_DEPRECATED -DPIC -Os -fPIC -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe"
Yooohoooo?! Can you hear the echo? =)
Nobody has such a problem? What could be wrong with my system? any ideas?
Arrrgh! This is driving me insane! I finally isolated cups in a single directory and ran it from there. It perfectly works in my machine at home, but when I copy the correctly working cups program to my server at college, same stupid error happens. What package could be broken at my server resulting that stupid bug? I am still trying to figure it out...
Today I noticed an important thing. My installation at my home was working correctly and by coincidence I noticed the following: When I logged in as root and ran my web browser (firefox or opera), the mentioned strange behaviour again occured; However, on the very same machine, when I logged in with my everyday username, everything worked fine. Seems like something in the user configuraton files cause this stupid behaviour. I am still trying to figure it out.. I believe that this is a good hint for the resolution..
I finally figured out what the heck was that... I am using Turkish locales in my system and I set LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US tr" and my LC_ALL="tr_TR.UTF-8" by default. The problem is totally web-browser dependent and it happens on epiphany, firefox or opera. Some wrong setting is put by default into the language configuration. The relevant file is .mozilla/firefox/your_profile.default/prefs.js or such a file with similar function for other browsers. This file is simply holds the preferences for firefox. The problematic key is: user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "tr,en-us,en"); In fact for a fresh installation of firefox where above mentioned prefs.js file is newly created, there is no such key in "prefs.js" Anyways, even though such a key does not exist, when I open firefox preferences>content>language(choose) the next coming window shows 4 languages installed.. I removed the top language which was [tr-tr] (Probably wrong default choice, because there was another Turkish option installed right at second line. check out the attchment image) After removing [tr-tr] entry the above problematic key appears in prefs.js and everything works flawlessly. I installed a 64 bit gentoo from stage-3 and made my customisations. This erroneous entry comes as a consequence of my language customisations I guess... Such a stupid little thing drove me mad for 4 months.. I hope this helps someone else out there... If you cannot fix things out, try using "links -g" (in graphic mode) it works in any case. This appears not to be a CUPS bug, but i guess it would cause no harm to leave it here... right? Or you bosses decide what to do, I am quite some noob anyways. I didn't intend to be off-topic.. :)
Created attachment 196123 [details] The preferences>content>language window by default. This is the fresh default settings coming from firefox when I remove .mozilla folder.
