Print Queue Gets Stopped - /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd failed

[Helge Blischke]

Anurag wrote:

> Hi All...
> 
> Could you please help me with a CUPS Problem?
> 
> The printer Queue is getting stopped every once in a while...
> 
> This is what the status looked like.
> 
> [root at L573P cups]# lpstat -plogisticain_20
> printer logisticain_20 is idle.  enabled since Thu 13 Oct 2011 10:35:46 AM
> CLST
>         /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd failed
> 
> We are on Red Hat (RHEL)
> 
> I have also pasted some info from logs in http://pastebin.com/6K0UL4D7
> 
> I get the following error messages as seen in the logs....
> 
> E [13/Oct/2011:10:35:46 -0300] PID 11374 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd)
> stopped with status 1!
> 
> Please guide.
> 
> Regards,
> Anurag

Perhaps your printer requires the use of the LPD reserved source ports (721 
...732). To force this, append
?reserve=on
to the printer's device_uri.

Helge