[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 135561] "Unable to retrieve the printer list" after upgrade to kde-3.5.5. (may be problem with hiddenvisibility)

[Cristian Tibirna]

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------- Additional Comments From tibirna kde org  2006-10-15 20:29 -------
Of course, my comment #8 is wrong. I just have bad memory, it seems. There *was* a commit made 12 days before the tagging of KDE-3.5.5, a very valuable one that reintroduced socket connection to CUPS in kdeprint. Unfortunately there was a little confusion in that code, that could explain the behaviors exposed in this BR. A timeout was set too small while waiting for connection answer from CUPS. This could explain why sometimes connections seem to work, while other times they don't, for certain reporters.

A correction to this problem was commited 5 days ago (8 days after the tagging of the KDE-3.5.5). It is very probable that packages for distros that seem to not have problems already included this patch:

http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kdeprint/cups/kmcupsmanager.cpp?rev=594190&r1=586782&r2=594190

The solution would be for each of you that experience this problem to get in contact with your distro's packagers of kdelibs and convince them to issue a bugfix package.

I will wait for confirmations that getting such a solution in place fixes the problem then I will close this bug report.

Thanks for your understanding. And a big thank you to André Wöbbeking for helping my faulty memory.