Me too: "Kprinter has stopped working - Unable to start child printprocess"

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Friday 26 January 2007 08:33, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> > This is a SUSE-10.0 with updates from their repositories.
> > 
> >    guest at prnsvrtst:~> kprinter -v
> >    Qt: 3.3.7
> >    KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.2"
> >    KPrinter: 0.0.1
> > 
> > I don't know which updates were put on this system by my 
> > colleagues recently (they usually just run "smart upgrade 
> > --update"), but it seems to be the newest of the newest of 
> > the newest, because I was unable to see more available 
> > updates when I did run the command again.
> > 
> > It's not at all related to CUPS, because it doesn't work for 
> > *any* print subsystem one may select; not even "Use external 
> > command". It also affects all printers, including the virtual 
> > ones like "Print to file (PDF)".
> > 
> > It doesn't matter how kprinter is started: from an 
> > application, from mini-cli or from a konsole shell...
> > 
> > As soon as I click on "Print" (trying to print to PDF), said 
> > dialog pops up up:
> > 
> >    "
> >    A print error occurred. Error message received from system:
> >    
> >    Unable to start child print process. Check the command syntax: 
> >    gs -q -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
> >       -sOutputFile=$out{/home/kurt/print.pdf} -sPAPERSIZE=a4 \
> >       -c .setpdfwrite -f %in 
> >    "
> > 
> > For now, I'd dismiss the "Check the command syntax" part; it 
> > hasn't changed, and it is correct.
> > 
> > The basic problem is "Unable to start child print process."
> > 
> > Starting kprinter from konsole, yields this warning:
> > 
> >    "kprinter: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no 
> >     instance name or about data passed to the constructor!"
> > 
> > I've no idea what that means. Any hints? Could this be relevant?
> 
> Is it possible that the kdeprintd daemon (kded module) isn't able
> to start a child process anymore? Is it possible for you to "talk"
> directly to the module to see if it behaves correctly?
> (it used to be possible with "dcop kded kdeprintd")

Yes. I'm not at the office, but I phoned them in the afternoon. They
said "dcop kded kdeprintd openPassDlg root" opened a password dialog.