Odd error from printer management.

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jan 21, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Yuki Cuss wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> Aformentioned error is produced as follows:
>    1. System -> Administration -> Printing
>
> Here I am shown the management interface, with `New Printer'.
>    2. Double click New Printer.
>
> `The Application "gnome-cups-add" has quit unexpectedly.'
>    3. Click Restart Application.
>
> Nothing happens.
>    4. Double click New Printer.
>
> `The Application "gnome-cups-manager" has quit unexpectedly.'
>    5. Click Restart Application.
>
> The manager restarts.
>    6. Double click New Printer.
>
> The manager silently dies.
>
> Clicking `Inform Developers' takes me to the normal bug report  
> interface, but neither gnome-cups-add nor gnome-cups-manager is  
> listed under Products.
>
> Any hints? I haven't done so much as plugged my printer in and I  
> get this. Plugging my printer in doesn't effect things. (USB Canon  
> i550, I can see it's detected in dmesg, and  
> HardwareSupportComponentsPrinters tells me that it's supported with  
> the Canon S800 driver)
>

Try running the command 'sudo gnome-cups-manager' from a terminal.   
If it dies again, there should hopefully be an error message in the  
terminal window which may help in determining what happened.