Bug 144721

Summary: Uninformative error popup when adding printer
Product: [Applications] kdeprint Reporter: Elektro Schock <elektroschock>
Component: generalAssignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: jlayt
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: screenshot of the message (png)
Screenshot of the all grey selection

Description Elektro Schock 2007-04-26 18:55:25 UTC 
Version:           0.2 (using KDE 3.5.6, Kubuntu (feisty) 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.20-15-386

when I try to add a printer (add -- printer-class add) I get the error popup dialog

Beim Laden der DruckerListe ist folgender fehler aufgetraten
server-error-internal error

when loading printer list the following error occured
server-error-internal-error

then the assistant opens but on the seond device screen no options are listed, all gray. I cannot proceed as I am asked to select an item which is impossible
Comment 1 Elektro Schock 2007-04-26 19:02:55 UTC 
Created attachment 20381 [details]
screenshot of the message (png)
Comment 2 Elektro Schock 2007-04-26 19:10:58 UTC 
Created attachment 20382 [details]
Screenshot of the all grey selection
Comment 3 Elektro Schock 2007-04-26 19:13:25 UTC 
...also occurs when it root mode.
Comment 4 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-04-27 16:56:15 UTC 
Unfortunately, there is not much that KDEPrint can do about that. This is the exact error message that the underlying CUPS print system reports.

CUPS developers committed themselves to make cupsd report better (an human readable) error messages over the next few releases. KDEPrint will likely automatically pick up those messages and report them. For now, not much can be done on the KDE side.
Comment 5 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:31:45 UTC 
KDEPrint is obsolete, unmaintained and will never be revived.  Closing all open bugs.