[Expired for cups (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1738432
Title:
Regression, poor user experience, print dialogs garbled by
unidentifiable driverless printers
Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
Recently, my print dialogs have started to include network discoverd
printers in addition to those configured in cups even if the cups-
browsed service is disabled and the BrowseRemoteProtocols option is
set to none.
There does not seem to be any way to disable this behavior apart from
disabling avahi or its ability to talk to dbus, which causes side
effects on the system.
Yet, in some environments this behavior is a definite regression over
the old one and leads to an extremely poor user experience.
On some networks:
- The print dialogs takes 3-10 sec to open which is a huge amount of
time for an action that is expected to be instantaneous and for which
there is no visual feedback.
- The print dialog contains many tens of printer entries, all
identified by weird hex strings that cannot be related to any useful
location, that do not help identifying which entry corresponds to
which printer and that only mess up the list making it hard to find
the printers that are actually useful.
For instance, suppose that you work at some office that has recently
purchased a batch of new printers all the same model. In the print
dialog you may get many entries like:
HP_Laserjet_Pro_Mxxxdw_21ACF2
which only vary in the final hex string. How is one suppose to know
what is where?
Please make it possible to disable this driverless printer madness.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libcups2 2.2.4-7ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-19.22-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: E [15/Dec/2017:12:41:45 +0100] [Client 6] Returning IPP
client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Dec 15 16:22:07 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-12 (1463 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64
(20131016.1)
MachineType: Notebook W740SU
Papersize: a4
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.13.0-19-generic
root=/dev/mapper/zagar_ssd--vg-root ro quiet splash
resume=/dev/zagar_ssd-vg/swap_1 acpi_backlight=vendor vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-26 (50 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/02/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4.6.5
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: W740SU
dmi.board.vendor: Notebook
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Notebook
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.5:bd10/02/2013:svnNotebook:pnW740SU:pvrNotApplicable:rvnNotebook:rnW740SU:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNotebook:ct9:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.family: Not Applicable
dmi.product.name: W740SU
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook
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