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

Brent Lowe brent.lowe at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 06:23:51 PST 2009


Version: 1.1.22
O/S Version = Redhat EL ES release 4
CUPS was installed with the OS
I am just trying to print like normal.  From the command line with lp to multiple printers over ipp.  Note everything was working up until yesterday.

If I do a strace lp command I get the following:


.....
send(3, "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n", 17, 0)   = 17
send(3, "Content-Length: 135\r\n", 21, 0) = 21
send(3, "Content-Type: application/ipp\r\n", 31, 0) = 31
send(3, "Host: localhost\r\n", 17, 0)   = 17
send(3, "\r\n", 2, 0)                   = 2
time(NULL)                              = 1233752519
send(3, "\1\1@\2\0\0\0\1", 8, 0)        = 8
time(NULL)                              = 1233752519
send(3, "\1G\0\22attributes-charset\0\5utf-8", 29, 0) = 29
time(NULL)                              = 1233752519
send(3, "H\0\33attributes-natural-language\0\5"..., 37, 0) = 37
time(NULL)                              = 1233752519
send(3, "D\0\24requested-attributes\0\fprinter"..., 60, 0) = 60
time(NULL)                              = 1233752519
send(3, "\3", 1, 0)                     = 1
recv(3,


So lp is just hanging on the receive.  If I do a tail -f error.log during this time, the log is just looping with the original message I posted...





> 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?
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>





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