Comment 3 for bug 368977

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Peter Lemieux (seijisensei) wrote : Re: KDE4 "forgets" printer status / settings

I have a similar problem. I configure a printer using the "printer configuration" tool in the KDE Control Module. (This is an unbearably slow procedure, by the way, though I doubt that's related to the bug here.) I can then print, but if I shutdown or reboot, the configured printer disappears from the list, and I'm forced to configure it again.

Kubuntu 9.04

I noticed that there was a substantial update of the CUPS software on 4/28. Also on 4/23, I see an update to this package: system-config-printer-common_1.1.3+git20090218-0ubuntu19.1_all

Perhaps there's some conflict between these updates and the KDE4 configuration tool? The problem started to appear only recently, so these updates look like plausible suspects.

This is pretty much a show-stopper in my mind. If people have to reconfigure a printer repeatedly, they'll not be staying with Kubuntu for long.