[cups.general] cups stopped working, due to favicon.ico missing or ghostscript?

John H. mistamaila at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 07:20:04 PDT 2005


i think it was that or /var/spool/cups
thanks!


On 9/30/05, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> "John H." wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if it was some recent upgrade or what, but I cannot print
> > anything anymore with cups, jobs go nowhere.
> >
> > I have debug2 turned on for log, and at first I got the favicon.ico
> > missing error, but i 'touch'd that file, and now it shows the
> > following.... help?
> >
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] renderer PID kid4=7760
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH
> > -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs
> > -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="DESKJET 960"
> > -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792 -dDuplex=false -r300
> > -sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=2,PS:MediaPosition=7
> > -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- -
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4]
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Closing renderer
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] foomatic-gswrapper: gs
> > '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ijs'
> > '-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD'
> > '-sDeviceModel=DESKJET 960' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612'
> > '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792' '-dDuplex=false' '-r300'
> > '-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=2,PS:MediaPosition=7'
> > '-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Could not
> > open the scratch file /var/spool/cups/tmp/gs_H48dY5.
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] **** Unable to open the initial
> > device, quitting.
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] renderer return value: 1
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] renderer received signal: 1
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Process dying with "Possible
> > error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.",
> > exit stat: 3
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] error: Illegal seek (29)
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Possible error on renderer
> > command line or PostScript error. Check options.
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] tail process done writing data to STDOUT
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] KID4 finished
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] KID3 exited with status 3
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Renderer exit stat: 3
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Renderer process finished
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Killing process 7759 (KID3)
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Process dying with "Error
> > closing renderer", exit stat: 3
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] error: Illegal seek (29)
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] [Job 4] Error closing renderer
> > E [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] PID 7755 stopped with status 3!
> > d [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] PID 7756 exited with no errors.
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] UpdateJob: job 4, file 0 is complete.
> > d [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] UpdateJob: Removing fd 10 from InputSet....
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] CancelJob: id = 4
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] StopJob: id = 4, force = 0
> > D [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] StopJob: printer state is 3
> > d [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] StopJob: Freeing status buffer...
> > d [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] SaveJob: Closing file 6...
> > d [30/Sep/2005:01:34:59 -0500] SaveJob: Closing file 6...
> > d [30/Sep/2005:01:35:00 -0500] select_timeout: 11 seconds to send browse update
>
> Are you sure the your /var/spool/cups/tmp directory exists and has the right
> permissions?
>
> should be like this:
>
> drwx-----T    2 lp       sys           176 Sep 29 15:51 /var/spool/cups/tmp
>
> Helge
>
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