Ubuntu
cups package

  1. Bug #555097
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 555097

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

The "Fix Released" was not set by a developer, but by a user who probably was lucky not observing the segfault. Removing "Fix Released" ...

Problem is that the USB CUPS backend cannot cope with printers which do not supply a device ID. Real USB printers always supply a device ID, but most USB-Parallel adapter cables do not. Solution would be to generate a device URI using other data which identifies either the printer or the adapter cable.