Bug#295310: gnome-cups-manager: Cannot add a new printer if executed as non root

[Francisco Javier F. Serrador]

Package: gnome-cups-manager
Version: 0.25-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


If you select add new printer as an ordinary user, root password is
promted but nothing happens.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to es_ES@euro)

Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10      1.1.23-4        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.2-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomecups1.0-1        0.1.13-1        GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii  libgnomecupsui1.0-1      0.25-2          UI extensions to libgnomecups
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-11        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.2-2         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.5-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-2        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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