Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: printconf
printconf probed and found my lexmark E210, no problems there. (This is
on a fresh upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10, but none of foomatic/cups were
installed under 6.06 - I used magicfilter and lpr there.)
However, printing didn't work, and ps showed gs and a tree of processes
hanging.
Some investigation turned up this changelog:
* The USB backend no longer supports the usb:/dev/foo
format on systems that support device ID queries since 1.2.1-1.
Because Linux supports device ID queries, you have to
replace your printer configuration uses usb:/dev/foo style
with device ID style. usb backend will show device IDs of
active USB printers.
Sure enough, DeviceURI (in /etc/cups/printers.conf) was set to
usb:/dev/usblp0. Manually changing it to DeviceURI usb://Lexmark/E210
after running the back end explicitly:
# /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
direct usb://Lexmark/E210 "Lexmark E210" "Lexmark E210 USB #1"
"MFG:Lexmark;CMD:GDI;MDL:E210;CLS:PRINTE"
and restarting cups cause it to work just fine.
** Affects: foomatic-gui (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
--
printconf in edgy misconfigures USB printers
https://launchpad.net/bugs/68953
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
