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Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an |
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updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is |
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finished printed fine, or if one is lucky as you, ends with dead process |
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logged. You should enable full debug level for cupsd log to identify the |
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exact cause of problem, find the error then I could give you an advice how to |
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correct. LogLevel debug or debug2 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf |
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Last time it happened to me, the reason was a missing link to a binary which |
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is called by foomatic and was moved somewhere else. I don't remember exact |
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details. Previous foomatic failures had different cause but identical |
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behavior (no symptomes at all), so I suggest to have at least debug level on |
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all the time. |
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After you get a working setup, consider locking current versions of foomatic |
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and cups via masking any future version, on laptop you will have no security |
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problem if some vulnerbilty will be discovered in them so you have no real |
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need to update. |
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Petr |
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On Thursday 04 May 2006 16:18, A. R. wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> I am having a problem with CUPS. (I think) |
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> I have Gentoo on my laptop and I was able to print just fine to any of |
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> the network printers here at work, but all of a sudden this is not |
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> working anymore. |
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> When I try to print, it looks like the job is being sent to the |
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> printer, but nothing comes out of it. |
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> Now, I am the "type" that updates Gentoo pretty much every other day, |
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> so I am sure I must have broken something in one of the last |
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> updates... |
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> |
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> Here is what I found in the /var/logs/cups/error_log file: |
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> |
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> <log snip> |
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> |
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> Adding start banner page "none" to job 336. |
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> I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 336. |
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> I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Job 336 queued on 'Happy' by 'ar'. |
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> I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Started filter |
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> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 12592) for job 336. |
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> I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Started filter |
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> /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 12593) for job 336. |
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> I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Started backend |
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> /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 12594) for job 336. |
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> E [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] PID 12593 stopped with status 22! |
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> |
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> |
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> <log snip ends> |
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> |
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> |
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> I have been using Gentoo for the past 2 years and I never had a |
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> problem like this before... |
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> |
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> I have searched in Google with no luck. |
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> Could somebody please help? |
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> |
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> Thank you, |
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> |
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> - AR |
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