New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did printing stop working for anyone else on Ubuntu 23.10?
Ask HN: Did printing stop working for anyone else on Ubuntu 23.10?
2 by profwalkstr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've been using a network printer with Ubuntu for many years, many releases, without any problems, and since updating to 23.10 printing stopped working. It's broken. Won't print and will crash. I have other computers at home that were upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 and are having the same problem. I tested my printer with Fedora 39, Debian 12 and openSUSE Tumbleweed and it works flawlessly. It seems I'm not alone. I was browsing Canonical's bug tracker and came across this report https://ift.tt/SP8QkFD where they seem to be having the same problem as I do. But the bug hasn't even been acknowledged by Canonical yet. If I were to make a guess, this could be related to them trying to move the printing stack to snaps on the 23.10 (https://ift.tt/U5JOBAo) and then backing off that idea (https://ift.tt/ZpSbCi9). When they reverted the decision, the printing system was left in a broken state. If printing is broken for many people this is a very serious regression. Makes me wonder what's coming up for the 24.04 LTS release and if I should have a plan B (which is moving to Debian). Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
2 by profwalkstr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've been using a network printer with Ubuntu for many years, many releases, without any problems, and since updating to 23.10 printing stopped working. It's broken. Won't print and will crash. I have other computers at home that were upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 and are having the same problem. I tested my printer with Fedora 39, Debian 12 and openSUSE Tumbleweed and it works flawlessly. It seems I'm not alone. I was browsing Canonical's bug tracker and came across this report https://ift.tt/SP8QkFD where they seem to be having the same problem as I do. But the bug hasn't even been acknowledged by Canonical yet. If I were to make a guess, this could be related to them trying to move the printing stack to snaps on the 23.10 (https://ift.tt/U5JOBAo) and then backing off that idea (https://ift.tt/ZpSbCi9). When they reverted the decision, the printing system was left in a broken state. If printing is broken for many people this is a very serious regression. Makes me wonder what's coming up for the 24.04 LTS release and if I should have a plan B (which is moving to Debian). Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
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