Firefox printing

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Aug 2 20:03:21 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Robert wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:36:58 -0600 (MDT)
> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print.  Can anyone else
>> confirm this?  (8.1-stable using lpd.)
>
> Warren,
> I was fighting this problem over the weekend. I have a network
> printer. I did a debug on the core dump and there was a some kind of
> cups library involved. I have WITHOUT_CUPS=YES in make.conf.
>
> I checked the installed ports and saw that cups-client was installed. I
> removed it and was able to print.

That works!  It does leave a long list of ports that are convinced they 
need cups-client to work, but that's probably something that needs to be 
fixed by rebuilding them without CUPS anyway.

Thanks!


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