I was trying to print a plot, but the printer wouldn't do anything, it just stood idle. Reverting back to octave-3.0.3, and it works again. However I need octave 3.2.4 because it allows me to execute a command that is not available on octave 3.0.3. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =sci-mathematics/octave-3.2.4 2. octave 3. try to plot anything 4. print Actual Results: Nothing would print. Printer stood idle. Expected Results: A print of plot supposed to come out of printer. Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6400_@_2.13GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.iso88591" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cpudetection cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dga divx dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg ldap libnotify live mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wma wmf wmp x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp1020" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I couldn't reproduce the error. Both printing to printer and savin figure to file worked without any problems. Below is my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_X2_Mobile_Technology_TL-56-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/dane/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ ftp://gentoo.tiscali.nl/pub/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ " LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb blas bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl cxx db2 dbus divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif f77 ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hddtemp hdf5 iconv ieee1394 imagemagick ipv6 java java6 jpeg junit lapack laptop latex ldap libgda libnotify lm_sensors mmx modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntpl ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf png pppd python quicktime raw readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification sysfs tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis wifi wma wxwindows xcomposite xfce xine xml xml2 xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #1) > I couldn't reproduce the error. Both printing to printer and savin figure to > file worked without any problems. Below is my emerge --info: I thought the problem would be gone when 3.2.4 hit stable recently, but it persists. Could it be the change in /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/plot/print.m is causing the problem? I was trying to compare both files and although I couldn't interpret the changes, but it appears that the new print.m had omitted a lot of lines; therefore, I suspect that the particular file is the culprit behind my problem. I'm going to attempt to employ the old print.m from 3.0.3 on 3.2.4 to see if I could regain the printing capability.
(In reply to comment #2) > I'm going to attempt to employ the old print.m from 3.0.3 on 3.2.4 to see if I > could regain the printing capability. Apparently, it didn't work.
(In reply to comment #1) After trial & error, I managed to identify the problem, and I performed a simple edit on print.m to regain the printing capability. FROM if (doprint) if (isunix ()) prn_opt = "l"; TO if (doprint) if (isunix ()) prn_opt = ""; It appears that "lpr -l" command is broken on my system. I attempted to reinstall both cups & foo2zjs, and it failed to fix the problem. Another thing that showed up is the page scaling issue, the plot is no longer stretched to the sides when I tried to print on landscape mode. It didn't happen before on 3.0.3, so I guess the culprit is either new print.m file or lpr.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #1) > > After trial & error, I managed to identify the problem, and I performed a > simple edit on print.m to regain the printing capability. > FROM > if (doprint) > if (isunix ()) > prn_opt = "l"; > TO > if (doprint) > if (isunix ()) > prn_opt = ""; > > It appears that "lpr -l" command is broken on my system. I attempted to > reinstall both cups & foo2zjs, and it failed to fix the problem. Another thing > that showed up is the page scaling issue, the plot is no longer stretched to > the sides when I tried to print on landscape mode. It didn't happen before on > 3.0.3, so I guess the culprit is either new print.m file or lpr. > I guess, I could say that the problem is fixed. In case anyone is having the same problem, you might want to try what I did. In conclusion, "lpr -l" might not work with cups. Someone from octave mailing list has been proposing a new solution that might address this problem in the future release.
