[cups.general] After pm-suspend, my parallel port printer no longer prints

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Sep 25 08:21:57 PDT 2009


Sounds like the parallel port driver isn't compatible with suspend -  
try reporting this upstream to the kernel folks.

On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Reinhard Dunkel wrote:

> I use CentOS 5.3 (kernel 2.6.18-164.el5PAE). Firefox "http://localhost:631/ 
> " reports I am using CUPS 1.3.7 and one parallel:/dev/lp0 and one lpd://192.168.1.4/binary_p1 
>  attached printer. The booting of this computer (with over a TB of  
> disk space) takes too long. So I installed pm- 
> utils-0.99.3-10.el5.centos.i386 to put the computer to sleep using  
> its pm-suspend command. Hitting the computer power button wakes  
> everything up again - except the parallel port attached HP LaserJet  
> 6L no longer prints! The printer is still listed as "(Idle,  
> Accepting Jobs, Shared)", the [Print Test Page] button seems to  
> work, and its job lists something like "completed at Fri 25 Sep 2009  
> 12:43:39 AM". But nothing prints. The network attached Brother  
> MFC-5460CN continues to print after the pm-suspend. I restarted  
> cupsd, hald, acpid... anything short of a reboot failed to get the  
> parallel port printer to print again. Any suggestion what else to try?
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