Printing woes

[Neil McLeod]

Thanks for the tips guys.

First, for Emilie, here's an excerpt from my /var/log/messages. Long number
replaced with xxx:

Jul 22 23:37:47 localhost kernel: [xxx] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 3
Jul 22 23:37:55 localhost kernel: [xxx] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 5
Jul 22 23:37:57 localhost kernel: [xxx] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0:
USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x0D17
Jul 22 23:37:57 localhost kernel: [xxx] usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Jul 22 23:37:57 localhost kernel: [xxx] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13:
USB Printer Device Class driver
Jul 22 23:38:31 localhost kernel: [xxx] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 5
Jul 22 23:38:31 localhost kernel: [xxx] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0:
removed
Jul 22 23:39:36 localhost kernel: [xxx] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 6
Jul 22 23:39:36 localhost kernel: [xxx] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0:
USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x0D17


For Florian: I checked out my error_log in /var/log/cups, and got the
following:

First, a bunch of these:

D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading job 310 from cache...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading job 311 from cache...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading job 312 from cache...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading job 313 from cache...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading job 314 from cache...

Then,

D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading attributes for job 339...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading job 340 from cache...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading attributes for job 340...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading job 341 from cache...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Loading attributes for job 341...
I [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Full reload complete.
I [22/Jul/2006:23:35:15 -0400] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 0...
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] cupsdAcceptClient: 4 from localhost:631
(IPv4)
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 4 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] CUPS-Get-Default
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 4 status_code=0
(successful-ok)
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 4 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:19 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 4 status_code=0
(successful-ok)
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:20 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 4 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:20 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:20 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes
ipp://localhost/printers/LaserJet-1012
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:20 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 4 status_code=0
(successful-ok)
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 4 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] CUPS-Get-Default
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 4 status_code=0
(successful-ok)
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 4 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 4 status_code=0
(successful-ok)
D [22/Jul/2006:23:35:24 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 4 POST / HTTP/1.1

Any tips? Thanks so much for your help!

Best,
Neil


On 7/21/06, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
>
> "Neil McLeod" <neil.a.mcleod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble printing to my HP Laserjet 1012. It used to work, but
> no
> > longer. (I don't remember the precipitating event; it might have been
> upgrading
> > to Dapper) Here's what happens.
> >
> > -Restart both computer and printer. No printer icon in status bar.
> > -I open a file (text, HTML, etc) and press "print". Printer icon appears
> with
> > exclamation point. Look at print jobs. They say "printer stopped."
> > -Right click on icon and press "resume printing". Exclamation point
> disappears
> > from printer icon, but still nothing prints. Look at print jobs. First
> job is
> > "printing"; other jobs pending.
> >
> > I'd be happy to give any more information. Thanks in advance for the
> help!
>
> The printing system (CUPS) has its logfiles in /var/log/cups/. Have a
> look at error_log there. If you change the LogLevel to debug at the top
> of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (and restart cups using sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys
> restart) you'll get some more information that may be
> useful to find the problem.
>
>
>
>    Florian
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