[cups.general] Printer stopped:

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:56, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>Your /var/spool/cups/tmp seems to be missing.
>
>I have
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>[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]#
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Till

Bingo! The magic Twanger! Thanks.

It fired up and ran a 3rd copy of your web page once I'd made that dir & 
chown'd it to root:sys, and then restarted the printer from the web 
server.  I may have killed that dir a couple of months ago as it had a 
2001 date & was empty when I was sweeping out the dirt of many years 
usage.

Now, is this permanent till I re-modify the printer, or do I need this 
to be called from rc.local at boot time?

>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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