ports/147129: print/cups-base: Printing to cups-network-printer fails with null-pointer-exception

Dr. A. Haakh bugReporter at Haakh.de
Wed Jun 16 10:20:05 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR ports/147129; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dr. A. Haakh" <bugReporter at Haakh.de>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/147129: print/cups-base: Printing to cups-network-printer
 fails with null-pointer-exception
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:18:51 +0200

 OK! I had IPv6 enabled. So I had add "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true" 
 to the command-line. I guess IPv6 is an open issue...
 
 The PR can be closed!
 
 Dr. A. Haakh schrieb:
 > Thanks.
 >
 > Now it works when I run my app from netbeans. If I start it from 
 > command-line I get neither exception nor printer-dialog.
 > Openjdk6 doesn't show the printer-dialog either!
 >
 > Jonathan Chen schrieb:
 >> This is most likely:
 >>     http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6633656
 >>
 >> with a workaround described at:
 >>     
 >> http://www.pikopong.com/blog/2008/09/09/java-printing-fix-for-linux-with-cups/ 
 >>
 >>
 >> Unlikely to be fixed, since we haven't had any update to jdk1.6 for
 >> ages. Openjdk6 does not exhibit this problem.
 >>   
 >


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