RHBA-2009:0066 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated system-config-printer packages that resolve several issues are now
available.

Description

system-config-printer is a print queue configuration tool with a graphical
user interface (GUI).

These updated system-config-printer packages provide fixes for the
following bugs:

• the "Delete" button was able to be clicked even when a remote print queue

was selected.

• changes made to server settings were not applied when switching to a

printer view even when the user was asked by a dialog whether to apply them
and chose to do so.

• the URI encoding and decoding functions contained an error that corrupted

URIs containing escaped characters.

• if an unhandled HTTP error occurred, system-config-printer printed a

traceback instead of correctly showing an error dialog.

• the dialog for adding a printer could get into a state where it was not

possible to proceed.

• the dialog for adding a printer, in some cases, incorrectly selected a

default printer model when this information was not known.

• the application incorrectly reported that a required driver was not

installed in situations involving a complicated filter pipeline.

• applying changes to a print queue which contained authentication details

in its device URI incorrectly resulted in those authentication details
being removed.

• system-config-printer behaved incorrectly when it encountered unknown

default job options.

• when trying to automatically select a close match for a printer model not

in the printer database, sometimes a sub-optimal model was chosen. The
selection algorithm has been improved in these updated packages.

• system-config-printer had to be restarted after changing server settings

because it did not automatically reconnect to the CUPS server.

• the minimum width of the system-config-printer application window was too

large in some cases.

• the SMB browsing window failed in certain situations.

All users of system-config-printer are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 250387 - Delete button should not be sensitive for remote queues
• BZ - 452853 - system-config-printer sees the windows workgroup, but not the machine or printer to share

CVEs

(none)

References

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