Thanks for the update on this, Janos. I will close this bug report now. Regarding your other issue, yes, please submit another bug report on that problem. Have a great day! :) G
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-config-printer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625265 Title: cannot connect to cups server Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Bug-in-bug: after "ubuntu-bug -w" command and clicking on the problem window (cannot connect to cups server) the web page started with a message that it refreshes every 10 seconds. It may have, but the only way to move forward was to reload the web page so that I could get into this one - this has happened before, so apparently there is a bug with ubuntu-bug (apport?) as well. Now the real bug hopefully reported by "ubuntu-bug -w" is that I cannot print since distribution upgrade to 16.04. I tried to follow instructions on Ubuntu.wiki, and was unable to solve the problem. Fortunately, I have an old Linux installation on a different machine, so if I need to print something from this machine I just access the pdf version from the old Linux machine and print it from there. I'm more than happy to participate in helping to solve this problem, I do have some understanding of basic Linux (Fedora-3 level), but the current sophistication of Ubuntu is too much for me. I did a fresh install, not distribution upgrade, on a different machine. There printing works (well, at least it connects to the print server). So this bug is definitely related to distribution upgrade: some stray files and configurations from 14.04 confuse the 16.04 system. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: system-config-printer-gnome 1.5.7+20160212-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CupsErrorLog: CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Mon Sep 19 12:22:42 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-31 (1053 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.5 Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Bad file descriptor Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0d62:0530 Darfon Electronics Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: Acer Aspire 5532 PackageArchitecture: all Papersize: letter PpdFiles: Error: command ['fgrep', '-H', '*NickName', '/etc/cups/ppd/LaserJet-P-1102w-Acerlinux.ppd', '/etc/cups/ppd/EvaIdaWindowsHP-Deskjet-1050-j410.ppd', '/etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd'] failed with exit code 2: grep: /etc/cups/ppd/LaserJet-P-1102w-Acerlinux.ppd: Permission denied grep: /etc/cups/ppd/EvaIdaWindowsHP-Deskjet-1050-j410.ppd: Permission denied grep: /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd: Permission denied ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-36-generic root=UUID=b1ac29b9-b0d0-456f-b424-0c683ae107a7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: system-config-printer UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 10/20/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Acer dmi.bios.version: V1.08 dmi.board.name: Aspire 5532 dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.board.version: V1.08 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.version: V1.08 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.08:bd10/20/2009:svnAcer:pnAspire5532:pvrV1.08:rvnAcer:rnAspire5532:rvrV1.08:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.08: dmi.product.name: Aspire 5532 dmi.product.version: V1.08 dmi.sys.vendor: Acer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1625265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
