[cups.general] Re: printer fault! no idea what may be wrong

Antonio Montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 10:23:02 PDT 2006


2006/6/4, Mario S. Mommer <mommer at moss-clad.net>:
>
> Sorry to reply to myself but I wanted to include some additional info.
>
> > D [04/Jun/2006:17:31:33 +0200] [Job 266] LPGETSTATUS returned a port status of 10...
> > W [04/Jun/2006:17:31:33 +0200] [Job 266] Printer fault!
>
> This, as it seems, only happened once. Now what happens is that I add the printer (via the CUPS web interface) and everything seems to work. If I try to print the test page, the test page ends up in the queue, but nothing is printed.
>
> In http://localhost:631/printers/
>
> the printer is shown as
>
> hp_LaserJet_1005_series_USB_1 "Printer fault!"
>
> with no additional information. The /var/log/cups/error_log file shows no entry.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>        Mario.
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I suggest to start from scratch, i.e. delete all printers both by CUPS
and by the graphical printer tool, to shut down cups-config-daemon and
to re-install only by graphical tool (and forget CUPS.
My two cents...

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Antonio Montagnani
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