Re: Cups problem
Hi again ....
I did a large number of changes including the installation of a custom kernel.
I can now print directly to the paralel port (HP LJ4) using
echo -en "\rHello\r\f" > /dev/lp0
This tells me that the basic prerequisites for printing are there.
I can now see the usb printer when I do a Kmenu - system -info center - usb
devices. If I try to print using
echo -en "\rHello\r\f" > /dev/usb/lp0
the printout vanishes into thin air.
If I open a Konq window and go to http://localhost:631/, for some bizarre
reason it now tries to open the page with kWrite. If I go to
http://localhost:631/jobs however, it renders the page properly - very weird,
it never did that before. Anyway, using cups, the two printers behave the
same ... if I sent a test print from the cups web interface, cups reports a
sent page but there is no output, no active job and the job that was just
sent shows as having been cancelled in the completed jobs window.
Leaving the usb problem alone for now, I would expect the printjob on the HP
printer to go through ok since I can print to it with the command line.
Looking at the cups error_log file I see the following error messages
Job 1 queued on 'hp' by 'root'.
Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 1!
Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug".
Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=1311)
Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=1312)
Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=1313)
.....
I have the gs-esp package loaded and gs seems to be loaded as well (??).
I am now officially completely lost .....
Oh, if I do a cat <filename> > /dev/lp0, that job ends up getting printed.
With the debug flag set, the errors are basicaly similar to the above but an
additional error shows up ......
AcceptClient() 5 from playtime:631.
ReadClient() 5 GET /printers/hp HTTP/1.1
SendError() 5 code=403
CloseClient() 3
AcceptClient() 3 from playtime:631.
GET /printers/hp?op=print-test-page HTTP/1.1
SendError() 3 code=403
AcceptClient() 6 from localhost:631.
....
What the heck am I missing ?????
Any thoughts anybody ???
Just to recapp, I removed (purged) all cups related packages, built the custom
kernel (several times til I got everything sorted), installed it and reloaded
all cups related packages (cupsys, cupsys-client, cupsys-bsd,
cupsys-driver-gimpprint, cupsomatic-ppd)
Jens
On April 4, 2003 10:02 pm, Jens wrote:
> On April 4, 2003 07:24 pm, Andy Hurt wrote:
> > > Questions:
> > > I am runnning 'unstable' - is there anything printing related that is
> > > broken ?
> > >
> > > Is there anything real obvious here that I am forgetting to do ?
> > >
> > > I did try all kinds of google searches but haven't come up with
> > > anything useful there.
> >
> > Egads--I'm not the only one!
> >
> > I have a HP 5L-Parallel, and run unstable. I can print like crazy from
> > every program/console--it's only the test page that won't print. When I
> > try to print the test, the light blinks on the printer a couple of times,
> > but there is no output.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Can't find anything of direct relevance at news.easysw.com/cups.general
> > or news.easysw.com/cups.bugs, and I still have yet to finalize my
> > configuration-diagnosis/thoughts for a post there.
> >
> > Can you print outside of localhost/631?
> >
> > Print Test Page worked last month (prior install of 3.0r1, upgraded to
> > unstable)--sure would like to see it, again, just once ;-)
>
> I now believe that something VERY fundamentally is wrong with my setup.
> Everything cups related seems to work as I would expect it to except there
> is no print. I finally (should have started there - doooohhhh) started
> checking the basics such as redirecting a 'cat' listing to a printer
> through the command line and I am getting nowhere. I also discovered some
> inconsistencies in /dev in regards to the ports although I haven't quite
> figured out why I don't like what I see (gut feeling.....).
> I will have some time tomorrow and I will unload everything printer related
> and start from square -1.
>
> BTW, when I was searching for similar problems via google, I ran into a few
> mentions of 'not able to print test pages but everything else works' - this
> doesn't seem to be something that only you have run into (well, I suppose
> that those posts could have been from you :) ).
>
> I will post the results when I have figured out what is happening.
>
> I don't think I mentioned that the printer dialog thu KWord and KWrite
> would crash the programs if cups was selected as the printer protocol (or
> whatever they call it). Also, when I run the KDE 3.1 print manager
> application and I have cups selected as the print system, clicking on
> either of the two configured printers will crash the print manager.
>
> I didn't pay much attention to all this for a while since a lot of weird
> things and crashes have shown up in the unstable branch since KDE 3.1 was
> introduced.
>
> Jens
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