ports/147129: print/cups-base: Printing to cups-network-printer fails with null-pointer-exception

[Dr. A. Haakh]

The following reply was made to PR ports/147129; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dr. A. Haakh" <bugReporter at Haakh.de>
To: Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, bugReporter at ib-haakh.de
Subject: Re: ports/147129: print/cups-base: Printing to cups-network-printer
 fails with null-pointer-exception
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:16:19 +0200

 Thanks.
 
 Now it works when I run my app from netbeans. If I start it from 
 command-line I get neither exception nor printer-dialog.
 Openjdk6 doesn't show the printer-dialog either!
 
 Jonathan Chen schrieb:
 > This is most likely:
 >     http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6633656
 >
 > with a workaround described at:
 >     http://www.pikopong.com/blog/2008/09/09/java-printing-fix-for-linux-with-cups/
 >
 > Unlikely to be fixed, since we haven't had any update to jdk1.6 for
 > ages. Openjdk6 does not exhibit this problem.
 >