Bug#695582: system-config-printer: Error loading /etc/cupshelpers/preferreddrivers.xml: [Errno 2] No such file or directory ...

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:45:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Package: system-config-printer
> Version: 1.3.7-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Although CUPS can be configured from its web interface etc., GNOME
> related tools seems to be non-functioning.
> 
> I see otheres are having problem too:
>   http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=88312
> 
> Here is my case:
> 
> $ sudo system-config-printer
> Error loading /etc/cupshelpers/preferreddrivers.xml: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/cupshelpers/preferreddrivers.xml'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/system-config-printer", line 1772, in on_new_printer_added
>     self.propertiesDlg.load (name)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/printerproperties.py", line 1410, in load
>     self.parent)
> AttributeError: 'PrinterPropertiesDialog' object has no attribute 'parent'


Very likely also caused by outdated python-cups:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554825 

-- Guido

> 
> /etc/cupshelpers/preferreddrivers.xml is read from Package:
> python-cupshelpers at line 347 of /usr/share/pyshared/cupshelpers/ppds.py
> 
> GNOME3's cobfiguration tool does not work either ...
> 
> If someone have time to fix this, this bug should be promoted to RC
> grave bug to get it accepted to release.
> 
> I have no time to check details but this does not look good ...
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (10, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages system-config-printer depends on:
> ii  gnome-icon-theme    3.4.0-2
> ii  python              2.7.3-3
> ii  python-cups         1.9.48-1+b1
> ii  python-cupshelpers  1.3.7-3
> ii  python-dbus         1.1.1-1
> ii  python-glade2       2.24.0-3
> ii  python-gnome2       2.28.1+dfsg-1
> ii  python-gtk2         2.24.0-3
> ii  python-libxml2      2.8.0+dfsg1-7
> ii  python-notify       0.1.1-3
> ii  python-support      1.0.15
> 
> Versions of packages system-config-printer recommends:
> ii  cups-pk-helper              0.2.3-2
> ii  system-config-printer-udev  1.3.7-3
> 
> Versions of packages system-config-printer suggests:
> ii  python-gnomekeyring  2.32.0+dfsg-2+b1
> pn  python-smbc          <none>
> ii  sessioninstaller     0.20-1
> 
> -- no debconf information
>