Comment 3 for bug 368977
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| Peter Lemieux (seijisensei) wrote Re: KDE4 "forgets" printer status / settings | #3 |
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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-
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.