On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:47:57 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm in need to use some commercial software (Matlab and Maple) which > come with their own (probably old) version of Java. > > Now, both of those software packages cannot print, they don't see any > CUPS printer UNLESS I remove the symlink /usr/lib/libcups.so which > points to libcups.so.2 > > But some GenToo packages do need that link, e.g. x11-lib/qt-gui won't > install unless that link is there. > > I remember there is a bug with older versions of Java accessing CUPS, > and probably my commercial packages contain such an old version. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6516881 Which leads to: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6500903 which suggests that a wrapper script like this for starting matlab should do the trick: ---------o<---------------o<------- #!/bin/bash export CUPS_SERVER=localhost command_to_start_matlab ---------o<---------------o<------- Alternately, try commenting out the line Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and restarting cups ( If that is an acceptable solution for you, since this will mean cups only listen on the TCP socket ) /loki_val
