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

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Mon Aug 29 02:34:31 PDT 2005


Try this one:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic-filters/beh

It is a wrapper backend which makes error handling configurable, 
including repetition of the job in given intervals and not disabling 
queues. Instructions in the file.

    Till


rverduijn at brilmij.nl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I got the same problem and I think I know what causes it.
> 
> I've got a lot of cups servers that keep telling me printers are disabled, I've found out that most of the time this is caused by physical errors.
> ie the printer is turned off, has a paper jamm, no paper, toner empty, replace drum, etc etc.
> 
> But when the problem is fixed cups does not enable the printer.
> 
> Anybody who knows to tell cups to check at intervals to see if the printer is available again and enable it automagically?
> 
> Regards
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>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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