[cups.general] Printer stopped:

[Till Kamppeter]

Your /var/spool/cups/tmp seems to be missing.

I have

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[root at majax g]# ls -ld /var/spool/cups/tmp
drwxrwx--T  2 root sys 4096 Feb 17 21:41 /var/spool/cups/tmp/
[root at majax g]#
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   Till


Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:31, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>>Have you made the "beh" script executable?
> 
> chmod 0755 /usr/bin/cups-forever
> 
> 
>>Have you restarted CUPS 
>>after doing so?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>Does "lpinfo -v" list the "beh" backend? 
> 
> 
> It did, but I've 'modified' each of my printers again now, as that kills 
> them.
> 
> Now that I know I can reset them, I'll do so.  Here is an lpstat -v from 
> a working system:
> ==========
> device for lp0: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> device for lp1: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> device for lp2: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> device for lp3: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> ==========
> Now, I'll rerun 'cups-forever'
> Which contains this:
> ==========
> #!/bin/bash
> lpadmin -p lp0 -E -v beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> lpadmin -p lp1 -E -v beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> lpadmin -p lp2 -E -v beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> lpadmin -p lp3 -E -v beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> ==========
> Then do
> 'service cups restart'
> 'lpstat -v'
> device for lp0: beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> device for lp1: beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> device for lp2: beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> device for lp3: beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82
> 
> Now, print a page...  Same page, no output. Goto http://localhost:631
> lp2, the default printer is disabled, and the status line reads:
> =======
>     Description: An Epson C82 in draft mode
> Location: coyote.coyote.den
> Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs.
> "Cannot write /var/spool/cups/tmp/1369-root-cupsjob15198: No such file 
> or directory"
> 
> And the error_log now contains 2 more lines:
> E [21/Feb/2006:10:28:04 -0500] [Job 1369] Cannot 
> write /var/spool/cups/tmp/1369-root-cupsjob15198: No such file or 
> directory
> E [21/Feb/2006:10:28:04 -0500] PID 15198 stopped with status 2!
> 
> /var/spool/cups now contains these recent files:
> -rw-------  1 root sys   625 Feb 21 10:28 c01369
> -rw-r-----  1 root sys 82450 Feb 21 10:28 d01369-001
> so it obviously did write them.
> 
> And if I restart the stopped printer, its stopped again in 1 or 2 
> seconds, as fast as I can refresh the page display.
> 
> Next?
> 
> 
>>  Till
>>
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>Great idea Till, but when I tried the example shown by filling in
>>>the blanks, as root I got this response:
>>>
>>>[root at coyote backend]# lpadmin -p lp0 -E -v
>>>beh:/1/0/30/usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C82 lpadmin: add-printer (set
>>>device) failed: client-error-not-possible
>>>
>>>Do I need to reset something in my cupsd.conf?
>>
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