[cups.general] Re: "Printer disabled" - how to prevent it?

[Matt Hull]

did the computer doto sleep or suspend to ram?  desktop or latop ?  a
guess

matt

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 sevans at rutherfordglobal.com wrote:

> I have the exact same problem anyone have a solution?
>
> > Several times a week one of my printers gets "disabled" by CUPS, and printing doesn't work anymore until I manually "enable" this printer. It happens both with USB and network printers. I'm running CUPS 1.1.23, but the problem also happened with earlier versions of CUPS.
> >
> > This is how it looks like:
> >
> > Printer disabled:
> >
> > # lpstat -t
> > scheduler is running
> > system default destination: CANON
> > device for CANON: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
> > CANON accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> > printer CANON disabled since Jan 01 00:00 -
> >         Unable to send print file to printer: No such device
> >
> >
> > As we can see, there is such a printer:
> >
> > # lsusb
> > Bus 004 Device 004: ID 04a9:261b Canon, Inc.
> > (...)
> >
> >
> > So I enable the printer:
> >
> > # /usr/bin/enable CANON
> >
> >
> > And immediately it begins to print again:
> >
> > # lpstat -t
> > scheduler is running
> > system default destination: CANON
> > device for CANON: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
> > CANON accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> > printer CANON now printing CANON-1680.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
> >
> >
> > I wasn't able to trace this problem in the logs and what it happens.
> >
> > Is there a setting in CUPS configuration that would prevent this issue?
> >
> >
> > Tomek
> >
>
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