Jobs or Printer just stopping!

Alan Lord lord_alan at dsl.pipex.com
Fri Dec 1 08:06:51 PST 2006


> I have just built and installed CUPS-1.2.7 and esp-ghostscript-8.15.3 on my linux box.
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> I have a network (100Mb LAN) attached new Konica Minolta 2530DL Colour Laser. Printing from Windows is fine.
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> I have configured the printer in cups either as my printer docs suggest: doing it manually and using the socket/hpjetdirect interface. Or as CUPs wants to do it: It detects the printer using SNMP and I just tell it where the PPD is. This sets it up for IPP.
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> Now, when I try to get it to print anything, it doesn't work. No apparent errors show up in the error_log (I have log_level set at debug2).
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> When the printer is configured using the socket i/f the job itself is just stopped. I try and restart it and it just goes back to being stopped (No errors anywhere though).
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> When the printer is setup using the ipp i/f, the printer stops! Same issue as above; start the printer, re-submit the job, the printer stops again!
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> I am using the web interface for controlling and configuring the printer. I have tried printing the test page, pages from firefox, and an openoffice document. All give the same results.
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> I am new to CUPs (as of yesterday) but not new to Linux. I build my own distros based on the Linux From Scratch system and have been doing so for years... Usually I can fix most things but this is just weird... The lack of error messages is what confounds me.
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> Could someone please give some further pointers for investigation or perhaps explain what I am doing wrong if they know?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Alan
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Please could someone give me some clues as to where to start looking?

Thanks

Alan




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