Bug#578838: system-config-printer: Probing for LPD printer hangs

[John Pearson]

Package: system-config-printer
Version: 1.0.0-6
Severity: normal


When setting up an LPD printer with the gnome Printers applet, selecting 
'LPD/LPR printer', entering a hostname or IP address and clicking on 'Probe', 
tha applet hangs indefinitely.  The printer concerned is an HP LJ 6mp 
connected to a cheap and nasty Netgear print server.

Setting up the printer by manually specifying the queue and so on works fine,
but probing for it doesn't.  At the veyr least, it should fail/timeout
gracefully.

Terminal output from the applet appears below:
# system-config-printer
/usr/bin/system-config-printer:181: GtkWarning: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
  self.xml = gtk.glade.XML(xml, domain = domain)
/usr/bin/system-config-printer:262: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip
  self.tooltips = gtk.Tooltips()
/usr/bin/system-config-printer:263: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip
  self.tooltips.enable()
PASSTHRU

The line 'PASSTHRU' appears when you click on the 'probe' button.

Thanks,

John.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages system-config-printer depends on:
ii  gksu                          2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.28.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  python                        2.5.4-9    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-cups                   1.9.48-1   Python bindings for CUPS
ii  python-cupsutils              1.0.0-6    Python utility modules around the 
ii  python-dbus                   0.83.1-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2                 2.16.0-2   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.0-2   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk2                   2.16.0-2   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-notify                 0.1.1-2+b2 Python bindings for libnotify
ii  python-support                1.0.7      automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages system-config-printer recommends:
pn  hal-cups-utils                <none>     (no description available)
ii  synaptic                      0.63.1     Graphical package manager

system-config-printer suggests no packages.

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