Ticket #665 (new defect) — at Initial Version

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

lpr/lpq/lp do not detect default printer

Reported by: kchen Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: The Distant Future
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

kchen@moltres:~$ lpr

No default printer configured. Specify a -P option, or configure a
default printer via e.g. System | Administration | Printing.

When I go to System->Administration->Printing, I find that I have a default printer set (with the green checkbox). I tried setting a different default printer and then setting it back to the original, which made no difference.

kchen@moltres:~$ dpkg -l debathena*print*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold?
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg?-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

/ Name Version Description

+++-==============================-==============================-============================================================================
ii debathena-printing-config 1.21~ubuntu10.04 Printing configuration for Debathena

My default printer is a "local" networked printer, but I also tried setting an MIT printer as the default, and also got the same error message as above.

Printing by selecting a printer from an application or running lpq -Pprinter works fine.

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