OS tested - Solaris Sparc 10, solaris sparc 9

Steps to reproduce -

1) Install jre/jdk 6.0
2) Register plugin with the mozilla browser

Note - To register Plugin, go to {mozilla_dir}/plugins and create link to the libjavaplugin_oji.so file under the {JRE_HOME}/plugin/sparc/ns7

For ex., for Solaris 10, the default mozilla is under /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla

# cd /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla/plugins
# ln -s /tmp/jre1.6.0/plugin/sparc/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Open the browser, and click Help -> About Plug-ins
This should show Java Plugin 1.6.0

Next step is to make sure that the browser is configured to print using Xprint.

To do this;

Please download the Mozilla Xprint module from -
http://xprint.mozdev.org/download.html

Click on the link -
Solaris 2004-07-07-release_009_001 SPARC binary tarball

and download the binaries from any of the mirrored sites. The downloaded bundle is attached to the bug report.

Once you download and untar the bundles, go to the xprint directory and start the xprint server and setup and XPSERVERLIST environment variable.

Start the Xprint server
% cd xprint
% ./run_xprint_from_tarball.sh start

Set the ${XPSERVERLIST} env var
# sh
% XPSERVERLIST="`./run_xprint_from_tarball.sh get_xpserverlist`"
% export XPSERVERLIST


Verifying that Xprint is running and working
% ./run_xprint_from_tarball.sh lsprinters

This should show the list of printers.

Now bring up the browser, and make sure that you can print.


Now, invoke any applet, applets from java.sun.com should do.

Click File -> Print

Print dialog should come up and select the right printer and click on OK.

The applet does not get printed and the following error message is thrown in the terminal.

Error reading print pipe - {print queue id}