Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 20:48:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-office@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libreoffice can't print to lpd/lp printers Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307072023070.27668@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20120724200845.GA65091@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20120724170341.GA63276@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20120724200341.GA67317@server.rulingia.com> <20120724200845.GA65091@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:03:42AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2012-Jul-24 10:03:41 -0700, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: >>> If one builds libreoffice and one does not use CUPS, >>> then libreoffice will not print to an lpd/lp printer. >>> This worked with older versins of this port. One >>> can find a thread about this problem at >>> >>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/19782 >>> >>> To fix the problem, the Makefile needs to be changed >>> with the following patch. After rebuilding libreoffice >>> with the patch, I can again print to lpd/lp without >>> a problem. >> >> See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=167441 >> amongst others >> > > Thanks for the pointer. I was not aware that others > have reported the problem. Heck, I'm just happy that > libreoffice again builds on amd64. A followup to this year-old thread... LibreOffice (again) does not like BSD lpr/lpd again, dumping core when printing is attempted. That is without setting up a printer, because /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/spadmin says No printers can be installed, because the file system is read-only. Please contact your system administrator. As is traditional with error messages, it does not mention any information which might help the user solve the situation, like which directory is read-only. It may just be that a directory is missing. Certainly truss says that spadmin is looking for lots and lots of directories, but I don't know how to identify which one is the problem, or whether that really is the problem. Any ideas?
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