Bug#520085: problem is a mismatch between iceweasel and cups configuration

[Mike Hommey]

reassign 520085 libgtk2.0-0
thanks

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:16:10PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.12-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The problem is that iceweasel is trying to get the cups printer list
> by connecting to /var/run/cups/cups.sock.  If cupsd isn't configured
> to listen with
> 
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> 
> in /etc/cupsd.conf, iceweasel won't get any printer information back.
> 
> The distributed cupsd.conf now includes this line, but some of us with
> older cups installations didn't end up with the change when we got
> careless on an upgrade (that's what happened to me).  While this is
> admittedly  user error, it seems reasonable to also try to connect
> on :631

Iceweasel doesn't connect to cups.sock by itself, AFAICS.
It apparently delegates that to gtk. I don't know what happens from
there. The gtk+ maintainers may know better.

Cheers,

Mike