Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.
Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended.
The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test
page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other
print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is queued:
$ lpq
HP-LaserJet-3050 is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
active (null) 5 untitled 8192 bytes
then
$ lpq
HP-LaserJet-3050 is ready
no entries
but no printer output.
In /var/log/cups/error_log, for that job, we see:
2 I [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] [Job 5] ready to print
3 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] [Job 5] Set job-printer-state-message to "ready to print", curren t level=INFO
4 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] Discarding unused job-progress event...
5 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdMarkDirty(-----S)
6 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs and dirty files", busy= "Printing jobs and dirty files"
7 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] [Notifier] state=3
8 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] [Notifier] PrinterStateChanged
9 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdReadClient: 24 POST / HTTP/1.1
10 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients, printing jobs, and di rty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
11 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
12 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdReadClient: 24 1.1 CUPS-Get-Printers 1
13 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] CUPS-Get-Printers
14 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from l ocalhost
15 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] PID 9829 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp) exited with no errors.
16 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdMarkDirty(-----S)
17 D [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients, printing jobs, and di rty files", busy="Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files"
18 I [23/Jun/2018:21:49:26 +1000] [Job 5] Job completed.
but still nothing printed.
The CUPS test page includes "Driver: HP3380_6.PPD". I don't know if it
has selected the best one, or if that's relevant to this print job
evaporation.
Erik
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