Re: printing a certain .ps causes usb kernel errors

2005-10-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:18:40PM -0400, David Morse wrote: > All this is news to me, and interesting. How can one, in general, > tell "good" and "bad" postscript apart? The one doesn't crash the target printer, the other does. That's not a joke, that's just the way it is today. It used to be

Re: printing a certain .ps causes usb kernel errors

2005-10-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:30:29PM -0400, David Morse wrote: I don't see why you think this is a problem with the kernel. You generated bad Postscript, you sent bad Postscript to an unsuspecting printer, that printer crashed. It stopped communicating with the rest of the world, and the kernel

printing a certain .ps causes usb kernel errors

2005-10-27 Thread David Morse
Perhaps I should send this to some other mailing list (suggestions?), but my user has been generating a series of .ps files through firefox that, when printed, cause the printer to stop printing. Its red LED starts flashing, and when I go to examine /var/log/kern.log I see many entries of the form