[cups.general] Re: Queue is paused when printer is offline

[Helge Blischke]

Please supply a log filr from foomatic-rip as I suggested in my
previous post.

Helge

Adam Done wrote:
> 
> I am also having issues with this as well.  The printer ques goes off
> line and then no one can print to the printer and has to be restarted
> with admin.
> 
> I changed my debug to debug2 and read over my error file and can't make
> out to what is causing the issue.  I have included my output as an
> attachement.
> 
>         Re: Queue is paused when printer is offline.Helge BlischkeFri,
>         11 Nov 2004 08:07:14 -0500 Anonymous wrote:
>         >
>         > Urgent advice is needed.
>         >
>         > I have 4 printers configured via CUPS server running on Debian
>         Sarge.
>         >
>         > One of the printers periodically is stops working (e.g printer
>         is paused). Below is fragment of my /var/log/cups/error_...
>         >
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:17:04 +1100] Job 595 queued on 'lostinspace'
>         by 'hughes'.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:17:04 +1100] Started
>         filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 26574) for job 595.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:17:04 +1100] Started
>         filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 26575) for job
>         595.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:17:04 +1100] Started
>         backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 26576) for job 595.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:17:06 +1100] Started
>         filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 26583) for job 595.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:17:06 +1100] Started
>         filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 26584) for job
>         595.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:17:06 +1100] Started
>         backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 26585) for job 595.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:18:41 +1100] Adding start banner page
>         "standard" to job 596.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:18:41 +1100] Adding end banner page "none"
>         to job 596.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:18:41 +1100] Job 596 queued on 'lostinspace'
>         by 'hughes'.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:18:41 +1100] Started
>         filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 26593) for job 596.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:18:41 +1100] Started
>         filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 26594) for job
>         596.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:18:41 +1100] Started
>         backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 26595) for job 596.
>         > E [11/Nov/2004:10:24:36 +1100] [Job 596] Unable to send print
>         file to printer: Connection reset by peer
>         > E [11/Nov/2004:10:24:36 +1100] PID 26595 stopped with status
>         1!
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:24:36 +1100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel
>         to "debug" to find out more.
>         > E [11/Nov/2004:10:24:36 +1100] PID 26594 stopped with status
>         9!
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:24:36 +1100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel
>         to "debug" to find out more.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:24:36 +1100] Saving printers.conf...
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:33:09 +1100] Adding start banner page
>         "standard" to job 597.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:33:09 +1100] Adding end banner page "none"
>         to job 597.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:33:09 +1100] Job 597 queued on 'lostinspace'
>         by 'hughes'.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:10:33:55 +1100] Job 596 was cancelled by ''.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:11:18:08 +1100] Job 597 was cancelled by ''.
>         > I [11/Nov/2004:11:54:02 +1100] Saving printers.conf...
> 
>         Set the log level to debug or debug2 and re-run your job 596 to
>         see what
>         happens.
>         The queue has been stopped because one opf the filters
>         (foomatic-rip)
>         has exited
>         with status 9. That means that inside of this filter something
>         went
>         severly wrong.
>         As a consequence, the socket backend exited with a nonzero
>         returncode
>         and thus
>         the queue has been stopped.
> 
>         Helge
> 
>         PS: I just see that your may get debug ouput from foomatic-rip
>         individually
>         by changing the
> 
>         my $debug = 0;
> 
>         to
> 
>         my $debug = 1;
> 
>         It is in line 75 in my instance.
> 
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                              Name: error_log.O
>               Part 1.2       Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>                          Encoding: 7bit

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