Print button "greyed out" in Gnome applications

[Matthew]

Since updating to Hardy the "Print" button in Gnome applications (Evince, Epiphany, Gedit, etc.) is greyed out and therefore unable to print. I have no idea what is causing this problem, but I have read that libgnomeprint handles printing in gnome applications. I tried reinstalling those packages to no help.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Are you able to print in other (none-gnome) applications?
Please provide the ouput of the printingbug info script as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript

[Matthew (mcphil2)]

Yes, able to print in, for example, OpenOffice.org. Also able to print using the command-line LPR.

Requested file is attached.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Matthew, can you attach the following files:
/etc/hosts
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
/etc/cups/client.conf

[Matthew (mcphil2)]

here is hosts and cupsd.conf. I don't have a client.conf.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems similar to bug #225361

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Matthew,
I see you have altered your /etc/hosts file, did you edit it through gnome network-admin or manually?
Does the print button become enabled after using IP address 127.0.0.1 instead of 192.168.1.1 for localhost?

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Sebastien,
I don't think this has anything to do with the bug you mentioned, which is about gvfs.

[Matthew (mcphil2)]

Ahh, that solves it. I had edited it manually, didn't know about the network-admin tool (which is great). I had suspected this had something to do with the problem. I tried switching it to 127.0.1.1 (not 127.0.0.1) but that hadn't worked. Now I've switched my IP address host name and made 127.0.0.1 localhost, restarted cups, and it works!

Guess it wasn't a bug after all. Thanks everyone.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, that was a copy error, the correct number is bug #196429

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Closing as "Invalid" then since it was a misconfiguration in /etc/hosts.