Cups problem
Hello,
yesterday I have installed cups and successfully configured my Epson
Stylus Color 580 usb printer to work with my Sid. I have printed some
pages, and everything seemed to work. Today I have tried to print a
three pages file from xemacs, and after two of them the printer stopped.
I have tried to stop and restart the job, to stop and restart the
printer, but nothing happened. Then I checked printer configuration,
from http://localhost:631, and I have discovered that it proposed me not
anymore the device /dev/usb/lp0, which was assigned the first time I
added the printer, but the very mysterious one
usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20580?serial=L84020010301225430
I found this very strange, but I finished the re-configuration and
restarted cupsys, but again the printer didn't respond. So I tried to
re-assign the former device /dev/usb/lp0 with lpadmin, to restart
cupsys, with no result. Then I decided to purge cups packages
(cupsys-1.1.18-2, cupsys-bsd-1.1.18-2, cupsys-client-1.1.18-2
cupsys-driver-gimp-print-4.2.5-2), to delete every still existing
configuration file related to cups and to try to reinstall the packages
again to see if I could put the system back in the state in which the
printer was working, but again when I added the printer it was assigned
to device usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20580?serial=L84020010301225430 (I
don't yet know where cups gets the information to assign this device); I
tried to print again, nothing; I tried to assign again /dev/usb/lp0,
nothing; then I set debug level to 'debug', restarted the daemon and I
have given a look to /var/log/cups/error_log, and I have seen these
lines:
---
I [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Job 4 queued on 'epsonnew' by ''.
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Job 4 hold_until = 0
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] StartJob(4, 0x8086ea8)
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] StartJob() id = 4, file = 0/1
E [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Unable to convert file 0 to printable
format for job 4!
I [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript
installed?
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] CancelJob: id = 4
---
but I have package gs-esp-7.05.6-1 installed on my system!
At this point I really don't know what to do to make my printer work
again as it was doing before, so if you have any suggestion please help
me.
Bye,
Riccardo
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