Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:21:08 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote:

> Camaleón writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:15:10 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface,
>>> everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer
>>> results in the printer reporting (via localhost:631/printers) that its
>>> state is "Paused", and "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed".
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> By Googling around, it seems to be a problem with "avahi", so you can
>> try restarting "avahi-daemon" service.
>>
>>
> Sorry, I should have mentioned I also found that with Google, and tried
> restarting avahi-daemon without success.

How did you setup the printer? 

Try by using a "socket://" or "ipp://" URI and the IP address of the 
printer/machine instead using its name to avoid "dnssd" service comes 
into play.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón