Bug#743455: cups: Pause after backend failure (printer off) not reset by reboot

[Jürgen Pfennig <info@j-pfennig.de>]

Dear Maintainer

as I found out meanwhile the problem is related to the default cups error 
policy, which is "stop-printer". 

This state survives a reboot and may cause a lot of trouble to unexperienced 
users.

In my country electricity is expensive and people usually turn off unneeded 
devices. If some users sends a job to such a printer cups enters the "stop-
printer" state by default and the user might get very confused. To me this is 
a serious usability problem.

Please make the "stop-printer" state local to a cups daemon session or change 
the default to "abort-job".

Please feel free the close this bug if you want.

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Message in the system log for a printer that is turned off:

Nov 11 20:52:20 peter0 hp[6558]: io/hpmud/musb.c 1139: unable to open 
hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_1320_series?serial=00CNHW59MGNM
Nov 11 20:52:20 peter0 hp[6558]: prnt/backend/hp.c 745: ERROR: open device 
failed stat=12: hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_1320_series?serial=00CNHW59MGNM

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Jürgen