Bug#709451: gnome-control-center: Adding printer crashes gnome-control-center

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Thanks for the report.

On 23/05/13 13:52, Mislav Blažević wrote:
> Package: gnome-control-center
> Version: 1:3.8.0-2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> When I add my Photosmart B010 printer in gnome-control-center it segfaults.
> This issue can be worked around by installing system-config-printer-udev which
> automatically adds printer.
>
> here is output and backtrace:
>


> (gnome-control-center:8053): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing was not provided by any .service files
>
> (gnome-control-center:8053): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_bus_get_sync: assertion
> `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed

There are two issues here:

One is that gnome-control-center crashes if the dbus service is missing. 3.8.2 
fixes this.

The other is that our system-config-printer is too old, we need to update it if 
we want printing to work...

Emilio