I'm using Centos 4.x (fully up to date) on a system at work. I have also
been using firefox 2 (directly from mozilla.org) on it for a long time,
and it tends to work just fine.
yesterday I installed the new FF3 release. It works fine too, with one
exception: The print dialog shows no printers! The print button is greyed
out! There actually four or five printers defined on the system, and all
other apps find them fine, including FF2.
So far no one has replied to my query on the mozillazine forums. Anyone
here got any suggestions I can try?
Thanks!
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ------------------------
----
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) -----------------------------
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:29 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:> I'm using Centos 4.x (fully up to date) on a system at work. I have also > been using firefox 2 (directly from mozilla.org) on it for a long time, > and it tends to work just fine. > > yesterday I installed the new FF3 release. It works fine too, with one > exception: The print dialog shows no printers! The print button is greyed > out! There actually four or five printers defined on the system, and all > other apps find them fine, including FF2. >I had that problem when I started using Seamonkey's 2.0 pre-release, which incorporates a lot of the changes that went into FF3. The new mozilla software uses the CUPS print system, so if you're not using that, or there are problems there, that's one place to look. On mine, it turned out that, for whatever reason (I never did find out what), the cupsd daemon had died and never restarted. I brought it up, re-added the printer and now it works. I did notice a couple of days ago that the print button failed on me again, not just in seamonkey, but everywhere. I tried restarting cups, logging out and back in, and wound up rebooting. I think this time it had something to do with my printer being offline - the parallel printers have a problem with reconnecting. HTH mhr
fred smith wrote:> I'm using Centos 4.x (fully up to date) on a system at work. I have also > been using firefox 2 (directly from mozilla.org) on it for a long time, > and it tends to work just fine. > > yesterday I installed the new FF3 release. It works fine too, with one > exception: The print dialog shows no printers! The print button is greyed > out! There actually four or five printers defined on the system, and all > other apps find them fine, including FF2. > > So far no one has replied to my query on the mozillazine forums. Anyone > here got any suggestions I can try?Not sure about why that is happening, but there will be a firefox-3 in CentOS-4.7 ... which should happen in late July after the release of RHEL-4.7. Printing should work with that. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080620/11373900/attachment-0002.sig>
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:47:28AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:> fred smith wrote: > >I'm using Centos 4.x (fully up to date) on a system at work. I have also > >been using firefox 2 (directly from mozilla.org) on it for a long time, > >and it tends to work just fine. > > > >yesterday I installed the new FF3 release. It works fine too, with one > >exception: The print dialog shows no printers! The print button is greyed > >out! There actually four or five printers defined on the system, and all > >other apps find them fine, including FF2. > > > >So far no one has replied to my query on the mozillazine forums. Anyone > >here got any suggestions I can try? > > Not sure about why that is happening, but there will be a firefox-3 in > CentOS-4.7 ... which should happen in late July after the release of > RHEL-4.7. Printing should work with that. >I have a workaround for this problem, should anyone else need it (contributed by a kind soul who had the same problem on RHEL 4). if you have evolution28 installed, just add: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/evolution28/lib to the startup process for firefox3 and all is well. evolution28 is available from the centos4 base repo, for those who do not have it. (I'm told that it is in the RH beta channel if you need it for RHEL 4.) There are a whole bunch of evolution28 packaages. I just installed 'em all, not knowing which one(s) are important. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080703/21c273a7/attachment-0002.sig>