[cups.general] CUPS not working, appears to be in tight loop in log file

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Feb 3 10:41:04 PST 2009


Brent Lowe wrote:
> 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:
 > ...
> 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.

What version of CUPS are you using?

What Linux distribution are you using?

What protocol are you using from the Linux system (in the device URI
for the printer) - smb, lpd, ipp?

Did you compile CUPS from source or install a binary package?

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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