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Both printers aren't working anymore since my last update yesterday.

A internal error reporting box fires up, when I try to add another printer under system settings. Here is some info:

  • Executable Path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cups-pk-helper-mechanism
  • Package: cups-pk-helper 0.2.5-2ubuntu2

  • ProblemType: Crash

    cups-pk-helper-mechanism crashed with signal 5 in g_variant_new_va()

Found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pk-helper/+bug/1565170

This is the error firefox-printer dialogue shows:

What can I do?

David Foerster
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Unless you truly need the fine grain priveleges that cups-pk-helper provides, you might try simply removing the package with sudo apt-get remove cups-pk-helper if that fails, you can purge the package where packagename is cups-pk-helper

You might also take a look at this related post.

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