installed gutenprint, now cant print on Epson C88

Sun Dec 10 22:27:46 PST 2006

Hello,

I have an Epson Stylus C88 installed to my parallel port. I was running Suse 9.2 and printing was fine with that distro. I recently upgraded to Suse 10.1. Today I downloaded the gutenprint-5.0.0 sources, did the ./configure, make and make install thing. This was because my attempts to do a head cleaning with escputil always resulted in:

Cannot open /dev/lp0 read/write: Device or resource busy

Now I find that escputil wont even retrieve the ink level:

linux:/home/jeff/printer # escputil -i -u -r /dev/lp0
Escputil version 5.0.0, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.

Cannot open /dev/lp0 read/write: Device or resource busy
linux:/home/jeff/printer # whoami
root
linux:/home/jeff/printer #

Also, printing in general now does not function. The jobs seem to appear in the print queue for a short time and then disappear. Nothing visibly happens on the printer at all.

I set the LogLevel in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to debug:

linux:/etc/cups # grep LogLevel cupsd.conf
# LogLevel: controls the number of messages logged to the ErrorLog
#LogLevel info
LogLevel debug

rebooted the system, queued another print job, but nothing informative shows up in /var/log/cups/error_log:

jeff at linux:/var/log/cups> l error_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 lp lp 764182 2006-12-10 23:08 error_log
jeff at linux:/var/log/cups> head error_log
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] cups->header.Duplex = 0
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] cups->page = 1
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] cupsPPD = 0x81393e0
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] cupsPPD->flip_duplex = 0
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] width = 6120, height = 3960
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] PageSize = [ 612 792 ], HWResolution = [ 720 360 ]
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] HWMargins = [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 ]
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] matrix = [ 10.000 0.000 0.000 -5.000 -0.000 3960.000 ]
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] cups->header.Duplex = 0
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:02 -0800] [Job 7] cups->page = 1

jeff at linux:/var/log/cups> tail error_log
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] ProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=1
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] AcceptClient: 5 from localhost:631.
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] CloseClient: 8
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] ReadClient: 5 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] CloseClient: 5
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] AcceptClient: 5 from localhost:631.
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] ReadClient: 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1
D [10/Dec/2006:23:08:19 -0800] CloseClient: 5
jeff at linux:/var/log/cups>

Can anybody tell me what is going wrong here and what I need to do to fix it?

Below I've attempted to supply the information described at:

http://linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/VII.cups-help/VII.cups-help.html

Which operating system? Which version? Which Kernel?

Suse 10.1
Kernel version:jeff at linux:/proc> cat version
Linux version 2.6.16.21-0.25-default (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006

Which version of CUPS? Was it the one bundled to your Linux distribution? Did you compile it yourself?

I used the one that came with the distro:
jeff at linux:~> rpm -qa | grep cups
cups-drivers-stp-1.1.23-28
cups-devel-1.1.23-39
cups-1.1.23-39
cups-libs-1.1.23-39
cups-client-1.1.23-39
libgnomecups-0.2.2-21
cups-drivers-1.1.23-28
cups-SUSE-ppds-dat-1.1.20-119
jeff at linux:~>

What method did you use to install your printer?

I used Yast that comes with the Suse distro. After I installed the gutenprint that I built, the list of printers displayed in Yast included the Epson C88. Before I didn't (it went up to C84).

What PPD am I using?

Extraced from /etc/cups/ppd/printer.ppd:

*FileVersion:   "5.0.0"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName:    "STP00749.PPD"
*Manufacturer:  "Epson"
*Product:       "(AFPL Ghostscript)"
*Product:       "(GNU Ghostscript)"
*Product:       "(ESP Ghostscript)"
*Product:       "(GPL Ghostscript)"
*ModelName:     "Epson Stylus C88"
*ShortNickName: "Epson Stylus C88"
*NickName:      "Epson Stylus C88 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0"

Now I realize that PCFileName looks kind of unspecific to Epson, but I did run cups-genppdupdate.5.0
like the gutenprint docs said:

jeff at linux:~/printer/gutenprint-5.0.0/src/cups> su
Password:
linux:/home/jeff/printer/gutenprint-5.0.0/src/cups # ./cups-genppdupdate.5.0
Updated /etc/cups/ppd/printer.ppd using /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.0/C/stp-escp2-c88.5.0.ppd.gz
Updated 1 PPD file.  Restart cupsd for the changes to take effect.
linux:/home/jeff/printer/gutenprint-5.0.0/src/cups #

Is there anything else I need to do to make the PPD for the CX88 get used?

The stripped content of my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file:

linux:/etc/cups # cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf|grep -v ^#|grep [:alnum:]
LogLevel debug
Printcap /etc/printcap
User lp
Group lp
RunAsUser Yes
BrowseAllow @LOCAL
BrowseDeny All
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 127.0.0.2
Allow From @LOCAL
</Location>
<Location /admin>
AuthType BasicDigest
AuthClass Group
AuthGroupName sys
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

Static libraries:

linux:/etc/cups # ldd `which cupsd`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7fa1000)
        libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb7f64000)
        libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb7e3c000)
        libslp.so.1 => /usr/lib/libslp.so.1 (0xb7e27000)
        libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0xb7e1c000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e18000)
        libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0xb7df9000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7de4000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7db1000)
        libwrap.so.0 => /lib/libwrap.so.0 (0xb7da8000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7c88000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7c63000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0xb7c4f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fd1000)

The last thing that I noticed that I don't remember seeing before in the output of dmesg:

parport 0x17a (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff
parport 0x17a (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff
parport 0x17a: You gave this address, but there is probably no parallel port there!
parport0: PC-style at 0x17a, irq 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
setup_irq: irq handler mismatch
 [<c0131bb7>] setup_irq+0xd6/0xe9
 [<df0379e5>] parport_pc_interrupt+0x0/0x2e [parport_pc]
 [<c0131c39>] request_irq+0x6f/0x8b
 [<df03777a>] parport_pc_probe_port+0x96e/0xb21 [parport_pc]
 [<de8742f7>] parport_pc_init+0x211/0x3ef [parport_pc]
 [<c012afac>] sys_init_module+0x12d6/0x1444
 [<c010299b>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79
parport0: irq 1 in use, resorting to polled operation
lp0: using parport0 (polling).

Since its related to the parallel port, I figured it might be pertainent. My BIOS says the
parallel port is located at I/O address 378, but afterall 378 decimal is 0x17a hex so there
seems to be no inconsistency there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff (jharan at comcast.net)