Printing problem cups/hplip, USB works but jobs get canceled

maiku

First, I'm using a 2.6.16-r3 kernel.

The USB works when I plug it in according to udevmonitor

maiku · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject:

Perhaps it hates my usblp driver? It tries to "remove it."

/var/log/messages

maiku · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 3:42 am Post subject:

Nobody with similar issues?
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elpollodiablo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 141

the same thing happens to me... did u have any luck fixing it ?

maiku · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject:

No, I can't figure it out. It couldn't have come at a worse time, too. Do you remember what you did before it stopped working? Any other details you might have?
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elpollodiablo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 141

Hum... Pretty much nothing, I've been traveling for a week and when I came back CUPS was broken :-(

I'll try do check if HPLIP has been updated checking emerge.log

Bobyl · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

maiku · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject:

I'll try that and see what happens.

It seems that this guy had a similar issue: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3181138.html and there is even a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126256

However, downgrading to 9.8 did not solve any of my problems. I'll try re-emerging everything to see if that amounts to a fix.
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maiku · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

No luck for me.
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Stever · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem with hplip 0.9.8, AMD64 kernel 2.6.15-r7. Downgrading to hplip 0.9.7 didn't help.
Fixed it with

elpollodiablo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 141

Solved for me... emerge -e world did seem a little bit too brutal for me, so I did:

maiku · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

What in the world... my printer works... why? What package was it that fixed it. I did what was mentioned above

Stever · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 2:57 am Post subject:

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hurricane · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 107

i'm testing this right now.

after emerging hplip it did not go away, but i solved another problem. but i don't want to emerge the other stuff package by package so i gonna run the rest now. maybe someone other can test it...

by the way: i think the problem comes because much changed in hplip. it was no service when i began in gentoo 1-2 years ago. i can remember that it was a pretty damn mess to get it to run with cups and samba. maybe because of this they changed it to use the port-based system and whatnot...

So "the real WTF?"(TM) is that as always somethign changes when you emerge, and you get no notification in the emerge logs. Great shit! I think the biggest problem that gentoo has (of all +9000 problems in bugzilla

, is that there is no separate logging of all stuff that you need to know when you emerge.

If anyone does know how i could quickly get into that emerge/ebuild [i]internals[/], please tell me, so i can learn a bit and change it myself.

Maybe i'll report back when it works for me too...

maiku · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject:

Well, to narrow it down, when I re-emerged cups, foomatic, and hplip it did not start working. I'm willing to bet my money on... foomatic-db-engine being the problem. Okay, maybe not willing to bet money... but if somebody who has the problem could test my theory and prove me right or wrong...

Maybe some day when one uses

hurricane · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 107

Hey, i think it must be some initial configuration you have to do for some foomatic or hp(iod) stuff to work with cups.

It must be some missing/buggy ppd-file or an error in hp(iod), because i got this in the logs:

[hpiod] unable to ParDevice::Open hp:/par/ANY?device=/dev/parport0: No such file or directory: io/hpiod/ppdevice.cpp 836_

chrisruwe · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 160

Look at the line in the initial post:

hurricane · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 107

Okay. This re-emerging fixed it:

emerge -atv foomatic foomatic-db foomatic-filters hplip cups

And after reading about bug 131533 (upgrade of foomatic-db should tell user to re-emerge foomatic-filters), i guess re-emerging foomatic-filters alone could even be enough.

If i understand it right, foomatic-db removes the needed foomatic-filters package (illegal ebuild behaviour in my opinion!!!) without asking or warning. (Only messages that do not come between thousands of lines of output of all the emerging packages do count! Nobody can [or should have to] read trough all the compile stuff if he has 20 packages emerged per week/month. Not if it is *that* easy to create a funtion to separate the outputs in portage...)

kwisatz_haderais · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 143

I'm also getting the error message

maiku · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject:

Perhaps you selected the wrong driver? All of the errors I've experienced were problems with printing. I haven't tried the scanner yet so I can't report on whether or not that works. But perhaps somebody has their scanner working and will be able to post with any related info.
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kwisatz_haderais · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 143

There's only one driver in my /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and that's hpaio

kwisatz_haderais · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 143

*bump*

+ the printer doesn't show up in OpenOffice, there's only a "generic printer"
again, that worked fine with hpoj and hpijs
This hplip shit is starting to really go on my nerves!!!!!!

maiku · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject:

I had that problem once and I juts reopened openoffice. Does this not work for you? Is it just openoffice?
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kwisatz_haderais · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 143

well it's been some time since I occupied myself with the printer and I've just today felt the need to print smth.

As with the scanner, printing a test page from the cups management site takes an awful lot of time and it's just a white sheet, without any printings...

As I said, it's driving me nuts