Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2012, 15:33 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 20:38 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > > […] > > > I believe after every CUPS upgrade my printer is deactivated and I have > > to activate it again (using the GNOME printer dialog, the checkbox > > before »Activated« (German »Aktivieren«) is not set). I am not a 100 % > > sure because I do not always print something after every upgrade but it > > happens since over a year and I expect the upgrades are at fault. > > > > Is that a known problem? Please tell me what other information you need > > for solving this issue. > > users on my system still experience this problem. It is very annoying > because normal users are not allowed to start and stop printers and > therefore cannot fix that problem by themselves.
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> I also looked through `/var/log/cups/` and could not find any messages
> logging that the printer was stopped.
Thanks to Till in #openprinting on freenode.net I now know that the
state is saved in `printers.conf`.
$ ls -l /etc/cups/printers.conf*
-rw------- 1 root lp 1546 Mai 28 01:23 /etc/cups/printers.conf
-rw------- 1 root lp 1546 Mai 26 12:53 /etc/cups/printers.conf.O
$ sudo diff -u /etc/cups/printers.conf*
According to `man printers.conf` this file is automatically created by
cupsd every time a printer is added or removed. In this case
`printers.conf` was created when I turned on the printer and
`printers.conf.0` when I used `gnome-control-center` to activate the
printer again.
I will monitor these files and hopefully get some clues what triggers
this problem.
Thanks,
Paul
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