Any attempt to print with chromium causes sigsev

Robert Nagy robert at openbsd.org
Fri May 27 06:05:59 UTC 2011


On (2011-05-26 18:42), Graham Todd wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 17:44, Robert Nagy wrote:
> >Hey
> >
> >You will need the following patches to be used on FreeBSD too for printing:
> >
> >http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=130641001611270&w=2
> >
> >You can get them at http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/chromium/patches/
> >
> >Note that chrome only supports printing to PDF files therefore you won't be
> >able to print to lpd. Only CUPS is supported, so you will also need to have the gtk cups
> >module to be installed.
> 
> Excellent! I just noticed printing does not crash chromium on
> openbsd. Not sure why I didn't think to compare.
> 
> PDF printing is great ... even a no-op is fine. It's just a pain
> when chromium crashes just as you click to save/print your boarding
> pass :-D Anyway, I will leave to FreeBSD port maintainer to apply as
> they see fit :)
> 
> These patches seem small enough to be reviewable (i.e. not like the
> BSD "monster patch" I was told about in #chromium). Are they being
> gradually accepted upstream. The patch review process seems fairly
> serious so I wonder if there's someway to accept a large set of
> patches and "catch up".
> 
> 

I have some friends at Google and they are trying to get the patches
in.


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