Me too: "Kprinter has stopped working - Unable to startchildprintprocess"
Andrew Myers
andrew.myers at fdservices.co.uk
Tue Feb 6 11:47:56 CET 2007
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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