There is an upstream fix for the crash; it will be in the next
gutenprint release. Alternatively you can get the patch here if you
don't want to wait for upstream to spit out a new release:
http://gimp-print.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gimp-
print/print/src/cups/backend_common.c?r1=1.31&r2=1.32&v
At first glance it appears that the crash is in the bowels of libusb's
enumeration code and has nothing to do with the backend itself.
Please log into the non-graphical console, and run three things for me
on the command line:
lsusb
/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
/usr/lib/cups/backend/gutenprint52+usb
In particular, I suspect that VMWare's "Printer feaure" is responsible,
but I have no idea how it's exposed within the VM. The gutenprint
backend uses similar enumeration logic as the CUPS USB backend, so I'm
particularly interested if the latter works when the former does not.
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Can you run those commands as root?
The fact that 'lsusb' is failing shows taht something more serious than
a failing backend is going wrong.
Please uninstall the VMWare tools too, at least as an experiment.
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The gutenprint backend crash is due to not catching the failure of
libusb_init().
Why libusb_init is failing is another matter entirely...
Oh, one more thing; can you run 'ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/' for me?
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