On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 03:23:57PM +0200, christian mock wrote: > > Package: openoffice.org > > Version: 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2 > > Severity: important > > And with libreoffice? I doubt this bug will ever be fixed in stable > even if we knew the cause (probably to big patcho). And "openoffice.org" > is gone in wheezy (except as (almost) empty transitional packages)
I think this is a pretty grave bug that causes people to lose work, so I'd like to see it fixed in OO/stable (because that is what people in office environments will be using). Regarding libreoffice: I set up a fresh squeeze-amd64 install in virtualbox and reproduced the problem there with OO. Then I removed OO and installed libreoffice-writer (and dependencies) from squeeze-backports (1:3.3.2-2~bpo60+1). The problem does not occur with libreoffice (neither by printing to the pre-installed "generic printer" which uses lpr, which isn't installed, nor by printing to file in a non-writeable directory), but there's no printing error message either in both cases, so there's room for speculation whether this would occur if the printing error was correctly displayed. > > - install a printer that uses 'lp' (I didn't test whether this also > > happens with other printing methods) > > I'd argue that if it only happens with "lp" (and works with CUPS) it's > only minor. People should use CUPS and leave the legacy stuff behind (as > bad as cups may be.) As I said in my followup, it also happens if you print to file and get an error there (e.g. because you selected a directory where you don't have write permissions). I have no clue how to get OO to use CUPS, and I'd rather not risk my sanity trying to figure it out (why, yes, I *hate* CUPS), so please try this if you have a working setup. schönes wochenende, cm. -- Christian Mock Wiedner Hauptstr. 15 Senior Security Engineer 1040 Wien CoreTEC IT Security Solutions GmbH +43-1-5037273 FN 214709 z .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. CoreTEC: Web Application Audit - Damit so etwas nicht passiert! http://heise.de/-1260559 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
