Printing with CUPS and java 6 does not work

[Vladislav Pavlović]

Binary package hint: cupsys

I'm using KUbuntu 6.10 release and sun Java 6 (SUN distribution). My current cupsys version as seen from Adept Manager is 1.2.4-2
With this configuration I could not print from any Java application. I could see print dialog but after confirmation to print nothing happend.
From job list of selected printer there was an appropriate task but within error state.
In order to solve this problem I removed the current version of cupsys and all packages that had cups within its name except libcupsys2.
I downloaded cupsys source form http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cupsys.html. The version is 1.2.7-4.
Now, after build and installation, I can normaly print from any Java application.
So I'm suggestiong you to revise current cupsys version in ubuntu package reposiotory to solve this problem.

[Patrick Goetz (pgoetz)]

This is a known bug, and has apparently been fixed in Java 6-10. The version of java currently packaged for Intrepid is 6-07. This should be upgraded to >= 6-10 before Intrepid is released in order to resolve this issue. Note that there is a workaround described at the very bottom of the first link below, see also Sun/java bug ID #6506286.

See:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6633656
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2610

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta? If so, can you use openjdk-6-jdk instead?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.