Bug#419937: cupsys: Brother USB printer will only print once
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4
Severity: important
Tags: patch
I have a Brother HL-1430 printer (USB) configured with KDE control center to
print with CUPS. But everytime I do a print job the next jobs will not be printed
(it may be more than one page, it's the job which counts).
The next jobs appear in the print queue but they aren't printed.
The command lpstat -p and the CUPS-interface in web browser shows then the error
message "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...".
The only workaround was to disconnect the USB cable and to plug-in it again. But
that was annoying. I have to print a lot...
I searched the Ubuntu bug database and found a patch:
http://www.cups.org/strfiles/2243/cups-1.2.7-brother-no-backchannel.patch
<= http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2243
<= https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/69265
The patch worked for me. I have no idea of the technical part if the patch is safe
and clean but a working printer is a must for me (and others!). So I suggest you fix
the bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii cupsys-common 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.21 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-6.2 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-9 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support
pn smbclient <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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