print preview and print problem

[Marc Munro <marc bloodnok com>]

I have a problem printing from gnumeric.  Print preview just gives me a
an empty window, and print brings up a "printing failed" window.  This
is 100% reproducible even from empty spreadsheets.

I have no problems printing from other apps including abiword.  I have
tried deinstall with purge, and reinstall to no avail.  I have re-run
gnome-font-install with and without the -u option.  No dice.

I am running debian GNU/Linux and have tried gnumeric from both the
testing and unstable distributions.  This smells like a wierd
configuration problem on my box rather than a general problem with
gnumeric or gnome-print but I am at a loss to know how to proceed.  All
suggestions are welcomed.

I am running a 2.4.9 SMP kernel:

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux bloodnok.com 2.4.9 #3 SMP Mon Sep 3 14:37:22 PDT 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages gnumeric depends on:
ii  bonobo         1.0.12-1       The GNOME Bonobo System.
ii  gdk-imlib1     1.9.11-3       Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for use with
ii  gsfonts        6.0-2          Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
ii  libart2        1.4.1.2-6      The Gnome canvas widget
ii  libaudiofile0  0.2.3-1        The Audiofile Library
ii  libbonobo2     1.0.12-1       The GNOME Bonobo library.
ii  libc6          2.2.4-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libdb3         3.2.9-11       Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii  libesd0        0.2.22-6       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries
ii  libgdk-pixbuf- 0.11.0-2       The GNOME GdkPixBuf library.
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2 0.11.0-2       The GdkPixBuf library.
ii  libglade0      0.16-4         Library to load .glade files at runtime.
ii  libglade-gnome 0.16-4         Library to load .glade files at runtime (Gno
ii  libglib1.2     1.2.10-1.2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome32     1.4.1.2-6      The Gnome libraries
ii  libgnomeprint1 0.31-3         The GNOME Print architecture
ii  libgnomesuppor 1.4.1.2-6      The Gnome libraries (Support libraries)
ii  libgnomeui32   1.4.1.2-6      The Gnome libraries (User Interface)
ii  libgtk1.2      1.2.10-2.1     The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
ii  liboaf0        0.6.7-1        The GNOME Object Activation Framework.
ii  libole2-0      0.2.3-1        The GNOME Unicode library.
ii  liborbit0      0.5.11-1       Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0       1.6.2-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libwrap0       7.6-8.3        Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  libxml1        1.8.16-1       GNOME XML library
ii  oaf            0.6.7-1        The GNOME Object Activation Framework.
ii  python1.5-base 1.5.2-18.4     An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
ii  python-base    1.5.2-18.4     An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
ii  xlibs          4.1.0-9        X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g         1.1.3-16       compression library - runtime
libesd-alsa0    Not installed or no info

On print preview I get these messages:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gnome-CRITICAL **: file gnome-paper.c: line 227 (gnome_paper_pswidth): assertion `paper' failed.

Gnome-CRITICAL **: file gnome-paper.c: line 243 (gnome_paper_psheight): assertion `paper' failed.

** CRITICAL **: file /extra/ray/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.72/build/../src/print.c: line 689 (compute_group): 
assertion `count > 0' failed.

** CRITICAL **: file /extra/ray/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.72/build/../src/print.c: line 689 (compute_group): 
assertion `count > 0' failed.

[Loads of stuff deleted for brevity.  Feel free to ask for the full list.]

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-print.c: line 691 (gnome_print_concat): assertion `pc != NULL' failed.

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomePrintContext'

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-print.c: line 691 (gnome_print_concat): assertion `pc != NULL' failed.

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomePrintContext'

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-print-meta.c: line 1466 (gnome_print_meta_render_from_object_page): assertion 
`destination != NULL' failed.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And on print I get these:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gnome-CRITICAL **: file gnome-paper.c: line 227 (gnome_paper_pswidth): assertion `paper' failed.

Gnome-CRITICAL **: file gnome-paper.c: line 243 (gnome_paper_psheight): assertion `paper' failed.

** CRITICAL **: file /extra/ray/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.72/build/../src/print.c: line 689 (compute_group): 
assertion `count > 0' failed.

** CRITICAL **: file /extra/ray/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.72/build/../src/print.c: line 689 (compute_group): 
assertion `count > 0' failed.

[Again, stuff deleted.]

** CRITICAL **: file /extra/ray/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.72/build/../src/print.c: line 689 (compute_group): 
assertion `count > 0' failed.

** CRITICAL **: file /extra/ray/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.72/build/../src/print.c: line 689 (compute_group): 
assertion `count > 0' failed.

Gnome-CRITICAL **: file gnome-paper.c: line 211 (gnome_paper_name): assertion `paper' failed.

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-print.c: line 153 (gnome_print_context_new_with_paper
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Marc            marc bloodnok com