Print manager crashes when selecting cups print system -resolved

[Michael Goffioul]

> I finally managed to get my printing problems resolved. To recap, I was
> running Debian and KDE3.1.1. When I installed cups, I could not print test
> pages and also got error messages re esp-gs not being loaded.
> Recent updates to debian unstable resolved the issue about not being able to
> print out test pages but printing out of KDE applications would still not
> work. If the cups print system was selected the print job never made it to
> the printer and the print dialog crashed.
> It seems that from KDE 3.1.0 to 3.1.1 a bug was somehow introduced and it is
> being worked on. Supposedly 3.2 will have it fixed. In the meantime, for some
> reason or another, reversing the order of things in /etc/hosts will fix
> things. I went from the line 127.0.0.1 localhost <name> to 127.0.0.1 <name>
> localhost and all the problems went away.
> This has got to be the weirdest thing I have ever run across .......

This problem was a bug in some KDE core class (outside of KDEPriny).
AFAIK it has been solved, see bug #56263.

Michael.

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