Suse8.2 cups1.1.18 and printing on printer servers: Remote host did

ekkard gerlach jack at aiai.de
Wed Mar 30 15:08:19 PST 2005


Problems with cups and printing an printer servers to some printers go 
on. cups 1.1.18 (Suse 8.2) claims: after about 5 hours and about 10 jobs 
printed without problems:  Remote host did not accept data file

One time a rccups restart reactivated printing. Mostly only a reboot of 
the Linux machine helps. But only for a few hours. It's like windows:
reboot every few hours ... :-(  But its a server for a office ...!
And I've lots of offices and nearly all of them who are not using
samba with printers plugged to Win machines have problems with that
fuckxxx cups.

I trieb Digitus printer server(switch), D-Link 101 and 301 and now a
VXL Itona ThinClient PC. The cheapest (Digitus) was the best after
increasing the cups timeout from 60s to 600s. About 70% jobs were
printed successfully. Some jobs are not printed at all. D-Link
got confused permanently an Itona ThinClient used as printer
server confuses cups 1.1.18 of Suse 8.2 so that the message
Remote host did not accept data file  appears in error.log:

D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] lpd_command 02 panasonic
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Sending command string (11 
bytes)...
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Reading command status...
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] lpd_command returning 0
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Control file is:
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Hpserver
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Pdavid
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] JL_NFDny3_SD
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] UdfA048pserver
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] NL_NFDny3_SD
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] lpd_command 02 57 cfA048pserver
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Sending command string (18 
bytes)...
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Reading command status...
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] lpd_command returning 0
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] lpd_command 03 34941 dfA048pserver
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Sending command string (21 
bytes)...
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Reading command status...
D [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] lpd_command returning 1
E [31/Mar/2005:01:00:33 +0200] [Job 3210] Remote host did not accept 
data file (32)

How the can I restart cups entirely? Only rebooting the machine helps!
(BTW: the thin Client is connected properly, its a perfectly working
machine (XDMCP-connection to server))

Somebody her who can tell me how to update Suse cups? - Claus Singvogel 
has a nice download site, but the update doesn't work! All printer
queues are disabled in about 2 hours! See thread
"every update of cups 1.1.18 (suse 8.2) to .19 or .21 results in 
disabled"  28.02.2005 12:10. I've heard that 1.1.19 should be stable
and with less bugs (Helge). But how to update?

thx
Ekkard





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