[cw-discuss] Crossover stopped working on debian testing

[Frédéric Mantegazza]

On mercredi 26 septembre 2007, Francois Gouget wrote:

> Frédéric Mantegazza wrote:

> > Le 25/9/2007, "Francois Gouget" <fgouget at codeweavers.com> a écrit:
> >> As far as I can see, the last thing it was doing when you hit Ctrl-C,
> >> was enumerating the system printers using CUPS. So I suspect that the
> >> problem is either that there are tons of printers, or that CUPS gets
> >> stuck due to a configuration issue. Does this line of investigation
> >> lead you anywhere?
> >
> > Could you explain me the way Crossover get the printers list from
> > cups? Does it use cups specific commands, or does it have access
> > through the lpr-compatible commands set?
>
> It loads the libcups library at runtime and uses it to enumerate the
> available CUPS printers. One way to make sure that CUPS is the source of
> the problem would be to prevent Wine from loading libcups. You can do so
> by creating a couple of empty libcups.so file in cxoffice/lib, like so:
>
> touch /opt/cxoffice/lib/libcups.so
> touch /opt/cxoffice/lib/libcups.so.2
>
> Let me know if that helped.

Bingo! It works!

Francois, thank you very much for your help :o)

Regards,

-- 
   Frédéric

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