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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: cupsys: Cupsys 1.2.1 fails to "wake" sleeping USB printer any more
- From: Matthew Exley <henley@guided-naafi.org>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:53:23 +0100
- Message-id: <20060606015323.23351.6809.reportbug@Apu>
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: important
Since upgrading to Cupsys 1.2.1, printing has become most unreliable.
I have a Brother HL-1430 attached via USB; this worked fine under Cupsys 1.1.x.
The printer goes to a low-power sleep mode if inactive for 5 minutes.
Under 1.2.x, if the printer is in sleep mode, attempts to print to it are met
with the Web interface message:
"/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb failed"
or:
"Unable to open USB device, queuing on next printer in class..."
And with LogLevel = Debug, the following final error message is repeated in
/var/log/cups/error_log:
>
>E [06/Jun/2006:02:44:19 +0100] PID 23207 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb) stopped with status 1!
>
(There's lots of other rubbish in there; this seems to be the most useful message)
As a work-around, unplugging and replacing the USB cable causes everything to wake up, in
particular I believe Hotplug comes to life and detects a new printer. CUPS will then happily
flush the queue and/or print any new jobs that come along right up until the idle timeout
kicks in again and the printer goes back to sleep.
So I deduce that something is failing to issue the appropriate kicks to wake up the printer
in 1.2.1.
BTW I'm using the PPD from:
/usr/share/ppd/linuxprinting.org-gs/Brother/Brother-HL-1430-hl1250.ppd.gz
(Brother HL-1430 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended))
And the device is connected on:
(usb://Brother/HL-1430%20series)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.2006010301
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.87 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libacl1 2.2.37-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.1-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.1-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-6 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.3.5-1.1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.18 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-5 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-9 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-5 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.6-2.2 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-8 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.1-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support
ii smbclient 3.0.22-1 a LanManager-like simple client fo
-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/lpr-backend-setuid: false
* cupsys/ports: 127.0.0.1:631 192.168.0.2:631
* cupsys/backend: usb
cupsys/portserror:
* cupsys/browse: true
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