From owner-freebsd-office@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 8 02:48:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-office@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5EEF90 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 02:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33D311D2 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 02:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r682m3bn027821; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 20:48:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id r682m2Tt027818; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 20:48:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 20:48:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Steve Kargl Subject: Re: libreoffice can't print to lpd/lp printers In-Reply-To: <20120724200845.GA65091@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: References: <20120724170341.GA63276@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20120724200341.GA67317@server.rulingia.com> <20120724200845.GA65091@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:48:03 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-office@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-office@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Office applications on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 02:48:12 -0000 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 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?