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Canon LBP2900 install

Asked by simon banks

Can you help, I am running Natty 11.04 and am trying to get my Canon printer to work. I have installed it and the computer recognises it as being there however it will not print. Jobs get queued and processed. I have run

captstatusui -P LBP2900

and it says 'aborted' and *** buffer overflow detected ***: captstatusui terminated

Any thoughts?

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VK Sameer (vksameer) said : 		#2

For me, this occurred at this line:

        strcpy(pCnskt->req_header, HEADER_REQ_STR);

in CnsktModule* cnsktNew(char *printer, char *locale, char *folder_path, int port_num)

req_header is defined as:

        char req_header[4];

while HEADER_REQ_STR is defined as:

#define HEADER_REQ_STR "ccp0"

Basic C programming knowledge should have set req_header size to be 1 more than the number of chars in HEADER_REQ_STR.

Changing to:

        char req_header[5];

and rebuilding worked.

HTH,
Sameer