[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #3743: Cannot print from local machine (remote works)

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Mon Dec 6 03:25:01 PST 2010


Thomas Koeller wrote:

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> I have set up cups-1.4.5 on my machine:
> 
> bash-4.0$ uname -a
> Linux sarkovy 2.6.36.1 #1 PREEMPT Mon Nov 29 19:25:50 CET 2010 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> 
> I also installed gutenprint-5.2 and ghostscript-9.00.
> 
> My problem is that I am unable to print anything from my local machine,
> while printing from a remote windows client works. Every attempt to print
> something results in the printer (a Brother HL-2035 USB Laser printer)
> waking up from its power-down state and behaving as if it was just about
> to start printing, but then nothing is printed at all and after some time
> the printer powers down again. The fact that printing works for the remote
> windows client that sends raw printer data generated by the windows
> printer driver lead me to the conclusion that something might be wrong
> with my filter setup, so I temporarily set LogLevel to 'debug' and
> produced an error_log (attached). However, I could not find any indication
> of something going wrong in there. It seems to me that all filters run
> normally without returning any errors.
> 
> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3743
> Version: 1.4.5

Perhaps you could try one of the other drivers for this printer (see 
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2035), as Jiri 
Popelka indicated the bug report at sourceforge.net.

Helge





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