[cups.general] Can't get list of printer drivers after upgrade to OPENSuse 12.1

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Feb 25 15:23 jeff wrote (excerpt):
> I recently upgraded my PC from OPENSuse 11.2 to OPENSuse 12.1.
> Now I can't add my printer via http://localhost:631.
....
> I click the Continue button at the bottom
> After many seconds I get this:
>
> Add Printer EPSON_Stylus_C88 Error
>
> Unable to get list of printer drivers:
>
>    Unknown
>

This is
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727911

Initially "lpinfo -m" fails with "lpinfo: Unknown"
(but a few minutes later it works) e.g. like:

---------------------------------------------------
# lpinfo -m
lpinfo: Unknown

#echo $?
1
---------------------------------------------------

In the CUPS 1.5.0 sources in systemv/lpinfo.c there is a few times
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
     _cupsLangPrintf(stderr, "lpinfo: %s", cupsLastErrorString());
     ...
     return (1);
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Currently I don't know the root cause that lets lpinfo initially fail
with "lpinfo: Unknown".

If I could reproduce the issue or if the error message was a tiny bit
more informative than "Unknown"...


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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