Diagnosing a printer problem
I'm on a modified Mepis system, and my apt.preferences are sitting now
at "experimental", probably a bad idea, but I did that so I could get
kde 3.4 installed. I just didn't set it back, and the other day I ran
an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, and it upgraded a couple hundred
packages in the pocess.
In the process, printing no longer works. Jobs get spooled, gs starts
up, but nothing comes out of the printer. I have to remove the print
job and kill the stuck gs process. In diagnosing the problem, I find
that "strace -p <pid of gs-esp>' is writing a large amount of zero
bytes through a broken pipe. That implies there's nothing on the other
end, or whatever is supposed to be on the other end is not responding.
I noticed also that while previously there used to be some processes
"parralel" and "cat" that get started, but these are not there now. I
then attempted to backport to the "unstable" cups but that does not
help.
I'm a bit confused and not sure whether I got all the bits and pieces
of the stuff that's relevant to printing at the right versions (or ones
that work).
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