printing - print2pdf -> to root-dir (default)

[GophrenOli]

I prefer to print into PDFs, so I am using cups-pdf.

Just today I got the same problem as some few months ago with thunderbird (and I swear I really didn't changed anything or installed anything else):

now the default path directs to the root-dir "/"

due to this we run into three errors:

(a) the direction to my home-path has been changed without any reason to me
(b) I cannot change the default-path back to my home-dir (ok, that's not the truth - I must delete the session-directory from the hidden .cache-directory...no comment)
(c) when printing to the root-dir, I don't get any error message. Of course I don't have the rights as a user to safe files to root.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: thunderbird 8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic-pae 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
BuildID: 20111124200334
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,1458a002,00100101'
   Controls : 39
   Simple ctrls : 22
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'U0x4710x308'/'USB Device 0x471:0x308 at usb-0000:00:12.0-1, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB0471:0308'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 3
   Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [26.00dB] [on]
Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'Audiophile192'/'M Audio Audiophile192 at 0xcf00, irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'ICE1724 - multitrack'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 15
   Simple ctrls : 10
Card3.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:3 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdffc000 irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card3.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: release
Date: Thu Jan 26 20:09:58 2012
DefaultProfilePlugins:
 Shockwave Flash - Lib=libflashplayer.so, Location=/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
 IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.3 (1.1.3-1ubuntu1.1)) - Lib=IcedTeaPlugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.91.191 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.91.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.91.101 metric 1
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
Profile1Plugins:
 Shockwave Flash - Lib=libflashplayer.so, Location=/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
 IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.3 (1.1.3-1ubuntu1.1)) - Lib=IcedTeaPlugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386
Profile2Plugins:
 Shockwave Flash - Lib=libflashplayer.so, Location=/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
 IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.3 (1.1.3-1ubuntu1.1)) - Lib=IcedTeaPlugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386
Profile2Prefs:
 extensions.lastAppVersion - 8.0
 network.cookie.prefsMigrated - true
Profiles:
 Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=8.0/20111124200334 (Running)
 Profile1 - LastVersion=8.0/20111124200334
 Profile2 - LastVersion=8.0/20111124200334
RfKill:

RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-01-07 (18 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/12/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FDf
dmi.board.name: GA-MA78G-DS3H
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFDf:bd07/12/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA78G-DS3H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA78G-DS3H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-MA78G-DS3H
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello GophrenOli,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with printing to PDF, possibly to do with Thunderbird.

You made this bug report in 2012 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 922259

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.

G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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