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mrinehart93

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Registered: 2010-10-16

Posts: 35

system-config-printer-gnome utility freezes when "adding" printer.

I've just started adding my wireless printer to my desktop, and while reading about CUPS in the archwiki, I discovered "system-config-printer-gnome". I installed it with pacman, and then set it up like the wiki said. Now when I run system-config-printer and press "Add", I get this error output in my terminal:

[mike@mike-desktop ~]$ system-config-printer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncipp.py", line 196, in send_reply
    handler (self._conn, result)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncpk1.py", line 143, in _ipp_reply_handler
    self._client_reply_handler (self._conn, *args)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py", line 142, in <lambda>
    kwds["reply_handler"] = lambda c, r: reply_handler (self, r)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/cupshelpers.py", line 575, in _reply_handler
    self._client_reply_handler (connection, devices)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 4820, in <lambda>
    current_uri))
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 4858, in local_devices_reply
    self.add_devices (result, current_uri)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 5198, in add_devices
    physdev = model.get_value (iter, 1)
TypeError: iter must be a GtkTreeIter

Does anyone know what could be wrong? I've done some Googling, but couldn't find anything related to this. I also couldn't find anything related to setting up a wireless printer manually with CUPS, so this way seemed the easiest way of adding a printer. Thanks

P.S. I am using GNOME, and all my packages are up to date.

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,671

Re: system-config-printer-gnome utility freezes when "adding" printer.

Did you try pointing your browser at http://localhost:631/admin and attempt to add your printer from there?

mrinehart93

Member

Registered: 2010-10-16

Posts: 35

Re: system-config-printer-gnome utility freezes when "adding" printer.

Did you try pointing your browser at http://localhost:631/admin and attempt to add your printer from there?

Oh wow. That worked perfectly! I guess when I saw that in the wiki I assumed that it was for USB or parallel port printers since I saw "localhost". Sorry to waste thread space!

Thanks so much guys!

P.S. I feel like such a noob