CUPS not working, appears to be in tight loop in log file

Brent Lowe brent.lowe at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 08:18:24 PST 2009


Don't believe my first post went through.  I  installed splix last night to print via a Dell Windows Shared Printer from Linux.  This worked great.  Today I am unable to print anything.  What I'm seeing in the log is the following:

[03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8, used=0, file=-1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8 con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 148438256, con->file = -1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8, used=0, file=-1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8 con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 148438256, con->file = -1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8, used=0, file=-1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8 con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 148438256, con->file = -1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8, used=0, file=-1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8 con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 148438256, con->file = -1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8, used=0, file=-1
d [03/Feb/2009:09:44:18 -0500] ReadClient: 8 con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 148438256, con->file = -1


This loops for about 300 seconds and then appears to timeout.  At which point CUPS is stopped(aborted?).  This loop occurs anytime I try to do anything related to printing... i.e. lp, lpq, etc...

Any help would be appreciated.  Please let me know if I can provide more details.




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