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Can print through 3rd party software, but not from gnome apps

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 9.04 and I am now having problems printing to a shared windows printer. I did not have this issue with 8.04.

Here are the specifics:
I installed the printer through the printing configuration gui. I have to authenticate in order to have access at the installation point. It has a checkbox to remember password. I check it off. At this moment I can print a test page and print whatever I throw at it for a while.

But after moments (I have never tried to time it), I can no longer print from any gnome app, ie envince, eye of gnome. I get the following error

Code:

Failed to print document

Can't prompt for authorization

Here is dmesg

Code:

[1720489.839816] type=1503 audit(1245677356.464:799): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::r" denied_mask="::r" fsuid=7 name="/var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb" pid=16846 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"

But I can still print a test page....

Now for a little twist....I can print from 3rd party apps such as adobe acrobat and open office (the printing app used by these program are different), but with some work. I need to open the printing console after sending the print job and authorise, then release the document.

I have searched the web for about a month to find a solution, but have not found much. I have posted on the Ubuntu forums with no luck. I hope one of the gurus here can help me out.

Thanx in advance,
lsutiger

You have encountered a very troublesome bug that's been around for a while. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ps/+bug/283811

It and the duplicate bugs listed at the top left, have a number of workarounds. None of them work perfectly. You can probably print one page per startup of CUPS. So if you do

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

you should be able to print. (Sorry.)

Most of the workarounds involved modifying /etc/cups/printers.conf. However the modifications seem to get overwritten. You can prevent this by doing

Code:

sudo chattr +i /etc/cups/printers.conf

(Although I noticed this screws things up if you forget to remove the 'i' when cups gets upgraded.

For now you'll just have to find an acceptable work-around; hang in there though!

Thank you for your quick reply. Unfortunately, neither of those options work for me. I have tried killing cups, editing the printers.conf file (some admissions on launchpad stated some things that worked for certain ppl), added the attributes and restarted cups. Notta.

Appreciated!

Did you tinker around with cupsd.conf in your search for a solution? Maybe you should reset it to its default state, delete and readd the printer, then try the workaround in the bug listing.