Re: CUPS messed up in sid?

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Sunday 11 January 2004 12:10, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Last night I tried printing and got some tilted text on the page
> (rotated about +3 deg, + angle meaning tilting the top border to the
> left). 

Are you sure the paper was feeding straight?  3 deg sounds unlikely to 
be anything but mechanical.  (I don't suppose it matters, but your 
description of the direction of rotation is still ambiguous - try 
clockwise/anticlockwise or geographer/mathematician)

I then checked cups from localhost:631, everything seemed
> fine. Well, restarted the computer, after checking as much as I could
> and having not much else to do that I knew. After rebooting, the
> printer is not working anymore, the settings in cups are fine, but
> every time I send some job to print, it just stands there,
> processing, until I cancel it.
> It says the /dev/lp0 is busy. Any clues? My printer is hpdj5550,
> using the hp driver.

I'm completely not an expert on this, but have you tried emptying the 
printer queue (/var/spool/cups, I recollect) and powered down and 
restarted the printer and/or emptied its buffer?

Someone clever will probably have better advice...

-- 
richard