Me too: "Kprinter has stopped working - Unable to startchildprintprocess"

[Andrew Myers]

Hi Kurt:

Did you manage to solve this problem or, if not, have you devised a work 
around to print stuff from kde?

All the best


Andrew


Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 08:31, Goffioul Michael wrote:
>   
>>> Thanks to David Faure, who answered my question on 
>>> kde-core-devel, we now know how to make this call on the 
>>> commandline. Here it is and also what is returned:
>>>
>>>
>>>   kurt@~> dcop kded kdeprintd print "ls -l" '(' 
>>> "/tmp/kdeprint.txt" ')' false
>>>   object not accessible
>>>
>>>
>>>   kurt@~> ls -l /tmp/kdeprint.txt
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 kurt kurt 13 2007-01-29 17:32 /tmp/kdeprint.txt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And doing the same as root:
>>>
>>>
>>>   root:# dcop --user kurt --list-sessions
>>>   Active sessions for user /home/kurt :
>>>     .DCOPserver_soprano__0
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   root:# dcop --session .DCOPserver_soprano__0 --user kurt |grep kded
>>>   kded
>>>   
>>>   root:# dcop --session .DCOPserver_soprano__0 --user kurt 
>>> kded kdeprintd print "ls -l" '(' "/tmp/kdeprint.txt" ')' false
>>>   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>>>   Xlib: No protocol specified
>>>   
>>>   6119
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   root:# dcop --session .DCOPserver_soprano__0 --user kurt 
>>> kded kdeprintd print "ls -l" '(' "/tmp/kdeprint.txt" ')' true
>>>   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>>>   Xlib: No protocol specified
>>>   
>>>   6134
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   root:# ls -l /tmp/kdeprint.txt
>>>   /bin/ls: /tmp/kdeprint.txt: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> Does this provide more clue now?
>>>       
>> You should try a command that produces some result, in order to
>> check if it's actually executed. Maybe a "ls -l > /tmp/debug.txt"
>> can work, or even a "touch /tmp/debug.txt" (remove the file first,
>> "touch" should recreate it).
>>     
>
> Good idea. But trying it only proofs in a different way, that the 
> "dcop kded kdeprintd print" call fails:
>
>
>   (a) if "/tmp/debug.txt" does already exist:
>
>       dcop kded kdeprintd print "touch" '(' "/tmp/debug.txt" ')' false
>
>       Error message pops up, see below (*) for its content.
>
>
>   (b) if "/tmp/debug.txt" does already exist:
>
>       dcop kded kdeprintd print "touch" '(' "/tmp/debug.txt" ')' true
>
>       Same error message pops up, see below (*) for its content;
>       however "/tmp/debug.txt" is indeed removed (as it should be,
>       according to the "true" in the dcop call).
>
>
>   (c) if "/tmp/debug.txt" does *not* already exist:
>
>       dcop kded kdeprintd print "touch" '(' "/tmp/debug.txt" ')' true
>
>       A warning pops up, see below (**) for its content.
>
>
> Of course, for each of the tests, "/tmp/" and/or "/tmp/debug.txt"
> were world readabable/writeable.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (*)  Content of error notification popping up: 
>
>      Headline says : "Catastrophe! KNotify"
>
>      Message is    : "
>                       A print error occurred. Error message received
>                       from system:
>                       touch: execution failed with message:
>                       touch: missing file operan Try `touch --help'
>                       for more information.
>                      " 
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (**) Content of the warning popping up:
>
>      Headline says : "Warning - KDE Daemon"
>
>      Message is    : "
>                       Some of the files to print are not readable by 
>                       the KDE print daemon. This may happen if you 
>                       are trying to print as a different user to the 
>                       one currently logged in. To continue printing, 
>                       you need to provide root's password.
>
>                       [ ] Do not ask again
>
>                       +-------------------------+        +--------+
>                       | Provide root's Password |        | Cancel |
>                       +-------------------------+        +--------+
>                      "
>
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