On 11/10/16 12:02, Brian Potkin wrote: > [I made a mistake with my previous mail by not sending it to the BTS. > Because of that your reply didn't go there either. I've rectified the > bug record by bouncing both mails to the BTS and setting the addresses > correctly on this mail]. > > > On Tue 11 Oct 2016 at 09:59:42 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> On 10/10/16 21:22, Brian Potkin wrote: >>> >>> Printing "working fine" for a long time must indicate something to you. >>> Then it stops working. How is this a bug rather than a matter for >>> debian-user? Computer systems don't generally go into meltdown because >>> they feel unappreciated. >> >> The bug isn't because it stopped working (I got it working again anyway) >> >> I raised a bug because I was hoping we could improve the user experience >> for people who don't know how to dig around in the log files. Maybe it >> should be a wishlist bug. > > My view would be that with printing problems users have to be prepared > to dig into log files, particularly the error_log. Without it a user > will get nowhere -fast. > > [...Snip...] >
In that case, we really need to anticipate having a GUI for browsing SysLog in the default desktop. Text based log files are not great for the average user and even for power users, the text-based log files don't distinguish errors from warnings or info messages. >>> This is a symptom indicating you have done something to the system. It >>> never happened before; why should it happen now? Things don't generally >>> occur out of the blue. >> >> After looking more closely, I believe the root cause was a recent >> firewall change that was interfering with mDNS. Tweaking the firewall >> makes it work again. This hadn't been obvious because some other >> devices had been able to send stuff to the printer and the printer and >> the printer's web admin pages were accessible. > > Is it possible to be a little more specific about the firewall settings > which blocked mDNS packets? I think that on Fedora SELinux is there by > default and it is not unknown for it to cause a misconfiguration issue > such as the one you have experienced. However, I have not seen it on > Debian so knowing what you did would be a useful jumping off point for > documentation. > In this case, Shorewall had been installed with a very basic configuration Adding this entry to /etc/shorewall/rules in SECTION NEW: SECTION NEW mDNS(ACCEPT) loc fw made it work.
