Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cups trouble

[Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss]

Am 26.07.24 07:26 schrieb "Goetz T. Fischer"  <g.fisc...@r-a-c.de>: 
> 
> hi all,
> 
> yes i know it's a popular joke but in my case right now it really is true: my 
> printer doesn't print 
> anymore.
> i don't print much so i can't tell exactly when it stopped working. could be 
> a couple of months 
> give or take.
> 
> i'm using cups and hal and the printer is connected via usb and so far it 
> worked fine. right now 
> however it still looks fine from the indiana side but the printer simply does 
> nothing. the cups 
> error log shows nothing, the printing job is listed without errors either and 
> messages looks like 
> this:
> 
> Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb6bc,83) 
> operating at full 
> speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: printer@2, usbprn3 at bus address 2
> Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] OKI DATA CORP USB Device
> Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usbprn3 is 
> /pci@0,0/pci1734,10fd@1d,1/printer@2
> Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
> /pci@0,0/pci1734,10fd@1d,1/printer@2 (usbprn3) 
> online
> 
> of course i tried to delete and add the printer again in cups, tried with 
> foomatic instead of 
> gutenprint, used a different usb port and so on but nothing helped. then just 
> to make sure the 
> hardware is okay, i booted that same box with knoppix and was able to print 
> with that with cups 
> right away. so apparently the problem seems to be on the indiana side.
> 
> one thing i noticed is that in the cups webui the jobs are finished very 
> quickly. that could 
> indicate that the problem is the transmission i.e. nothing gets actually sent 
> to the printer.
> 
> for now i'm out of ideas. any hints are welcome!
> 
> --
> 

raise the
LogLevel debug
should list in /var/log/cups/error_log every step the print job is doing and 
hopefully what is failing.


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<signatureafterquotedtext>Carsten</signatureafterquotedtext>
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