Hello All, Is there something wrong with Cups ? I have it installed and up and running on SuSE 9.2 well sort of. I have printed a couple of emails which need attention then when I tell cups to print something else ie: a letter from Open Office it sits in the queue and will not print. I have looked into the printer on the desktop and it shows a little red cross or some kind on emblem in the top right hand corner. The only way I can get it to start printing again is to reinstall all of cups and printer. Printer is a Epson Stylus 670 USB -- Clive. Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:28, Clive wrote:
Hello All,
Is there something wrong with Cups ? I have it installed and up and running on SuSE 9.2 well sort of. I have printed a couple of emails which need attention then when I tell cups to print something else ie: a letter from Open Office it sits in the queue and will not print.
I suggest that you look at the log files ( /var/log/cups/ ) and see what errors are being reported. Also use the command lpstat -t when it happens and post that back to the list as well as the error messages in the log files. You more than likely have something missconfigured but without anything to go on I cannot help you any further. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
Hi Graham, Here is the error log and lpstat -t. scheduler is running system default destination: styluscolor670 device for styluscolor670: usb://EPSON/Stylus COLOR 670 styluscolor670 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00 printer styluscolor670 is idle. enabled since Jan 01 00:00 I [19/Feb/2005:12:16:40 +0000] Job 10 queued on 'styluscolor670' by 'clive'. E [19/Feb/2005:12:16:40 +0000] Bad request line "request id is styluscolor670-10 (1 file(s))" from localhost! I [19/Feb/2005:12:18:23 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1728) for job 7. I [19/Feb/2005:12:18:23 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1729) for job 7. I [19/Feb/2005:12:18:23 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 1730) for job 7. I [19/Feb/2005:12:19:57 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1743) for job 8. I [19/Feb/2005:12:19:57 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1744) for job 8. I [19/Feb/2005:12:19:57 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 1745) for job 8. I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1756) for job 9. I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1757) for job 9. I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 1758) for job 9. E [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] PID 1757 stopped with status 3! I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1763) for job 10. I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1764) for job 10. I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:23 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 1765) for job 10. E [19/Feb/2005:12:21:24 +0000] PID 1764 stopped with status 3! I [19/Feb/2005:12:21:24 +0000] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:05 +0000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 11. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:05 +0000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 11. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:05 +0000] Job 11 queued on 'styluscolor670' by 'clive'. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:05 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1795) for job 11. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:05 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1796) for job 11. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:05 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 1797) for job 11. E [19/Feb/2005:12:23:05 +0000] Bad request line "request id is styluscolor670-11 (1 file(s))" from localhost! E [19/Feb/2005:12:23:06 +0000] PID 1796 stopped with status 3! I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:06 +0000] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 12. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 12. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Job 12 queued on 'styluscolor670' by 'clive'. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1808) for job 12. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1809) for job 12. I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 1810) for job 12. E [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Bad request line "request id is styluscolor670-12 (1 file(s))" from localhost! E [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] PID 1809 stopped with status 3! I [19/Feb/2005:12:23:37 +0000] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. I [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 13. I [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 13. I [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Job 13 queued on 'styluscolor670' by 'clive'. I [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1817) for job 13. I [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1818) for job 13. I [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 1819) for job 13. E [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Bad request line "request id is styluscolor670-13 (1 file(s))" from localhost! E [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] PID 1818 stopped with status 3! I [19/Feb/2005:12:24:05 +0000] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. On Saturday 19 February 2005 11:51, Graham Smith wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:28, Clive wrote:
Hello All,
Is there something wrong with Cups ? I have it installed and up and running on SuSE 9.2 well sort of. I have printed a couple of emails which need attention then when I tell cups to print something else ie: a letter from Open Office it sits in the queue and will not print.
I suggest that you look at the log files ( /var/log/cups/ ) and see what errors are being reported.
Also use the command lpstat -t when it happens and post that back to the list as well as the error messages in the log files.
You more than likely have something missconfigured but without anything to go on I cannot help you any further.
-- Regards,
Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
-- Clive. Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W
I have a PC connected to my home network via a wireless link to a router. This PC dual boots between Windows 98 and SuSE Linux 9.2. Everything works as expected with Windows 98 but I have some problems with Linux networking : pinging and samba. My PC runs a vanilla setup of SuSE 9.2. I am using a wireless card. The Linux drivers do not support WEP encryption but otherwise the card seem to run fine. When I boot up the network connects to the wireless router and my PC gets an IP address via DHCP. Everything OK so far. However, I cannot ping the router (or any other machine on the network) from my PC. The pings just disappear into the ether. Remarkably, I can administer my router from the PC by using a web browser like this: http://192.168.0.1/ This works great. But a ping to 192.168.0.1 never returns. It's not as though the router will not return pings. I can ping beautifully from Windows 98. It just doesn't ping for Linux. Web browsing and email collection run great through the network so the lack of pinging would no be of no particular concern except I cannot see my Samba network either and I wonder if the two problems are related. Once again, Windows 98 can see the Samba network with no difficulty. Any ideas why a web browser can see an IP address but ping cannot? Best wishes - Ken
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:19:15 +0000, Kenneth Payne <kmp@atrium.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
I have a PC connected to my home network via a wireless link to a router. This PC dual boots between Windows 98 and SuSE Linux 9.2. Everything works as expected with Windows 98 but I have some problems with Linux networking : pinging and samba.
My PC runs a vanilla setup of SuSE 9.2. I am using a wireless card. The Linux drivers do not support WEP encryption but otherwise the card seem to run fine.
When I boot up the network connects to the wireless router and my PC gets an IP address via DHCP. Everything OK so far. However, I cannot ping the router (or any other machine on the network) from my PC.
The pings just disappear into the ether.
Remarkably, I can administer my router from the PC by using a web browser like this: http://192.168.0.1/ This works great. But a ping to 192.168.0.1 never returns.
It's not as though the router will not return pings. I can ping beautifully from Windows 98. It just doesn't ping for Linux.
Web browsing and email collection run great through the network so the lack of pinging would no be of no particular concern except I cannot see my Samba network either and I wonder if the two problems are related. Once again, Windows 98 can see the Samba network with no difficulty.
Any ideas why a web browser can see an IP address but ping cannot?
Best wishes
- Ken
Ken, Web browser uses http(s) traffic while pinging uses icmp traffic and samba uses netbios. Do you have the SuSE firewall (on your linux box) configured to block inbound icmp traffic? If so, your ping packets go out, but can't get back in. Try disabling the SuSE firewall and try pinging again. This could also be causing the problem with access to the samba network (ports 137 and 139 for netbios traffic). If disabling the firewall solves the problem, reconfigure the firewall to allow netbios traffic. John
John - Thanks a million for your help. You were spot on. I've re-configured my firewall and now everything is working great. Best wishes - Ken On Sunday 20 February 2005 2:37 pm, John Scott wrote:
Web browser uses http(s) traffic while pinging uses icmp traffic and samba uses netbios. Do you have the SuSE firewall (on your linux box) configured to block inbound icmp traffic? If so, your ping packets go out, but can't get back in. Try disabling the SuSE firewall and try pinging again. This could also be causing the problem with access to the samba network (ports 137 and 139 for netbios traffic).
If disabling the firewall solves the problem, reconfigure the firewall to allow netbios traffic.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:35:13 +0000, Kenneth Payne <kmp@atrium.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
John -
Thanks a million for your help. You were spot on. I've re-configured my firewall and now everything is working great.
Best wishes
- Ken
On Sunday 20 February 2005 2:37 pm, John Scott wrote:
Web browser uses http(s) traffic while pinging uses icmp traffic and samba uses netbios. Do you have the SuSE firewall (on your linux box) configured to block inbound icmp traffic? If so, your ping packets go out, but can't get back in. Try disabling the SuSE firewall and try pinging again. This could also be causing the problem with access to the samba network (ports 137 and 139 for netbios traffic).
If disabling the firewall solves the problem, reconfigure the firewall to allow netbios traffic.
You're welcom. Glad I could Help.
John
Clive wrote:
Is there something wrong with Cups ?
No
I have it installed and up and running on SuSE 9.2 well sort of. I have printed a couple of emails which need attention then when I tell cups to print something else ie: a letter from Open Office it sits in the queue and will not print.
It needs to finish the first one before it will print the second, which is as it should be. Imagine the mess if it interspersed print jobs.
I have looked into the printer on the desktop and it shows a little red cross or some kind on emblem in the top right hand corner.
That means the printer is stopped. Does it go into power saving mode?
The only way I can get it to start printing again is to reinstall all of cups and printer.
Try using the kde print manager to enable the printer. No need to reinstall for this.
Printer is a Epson Stylus 670 USB My guess is it goes into power save mode, stops responding to the usb subsystem, gets marked by cups as unavailable, and simply will not print again until it is re-enabled. Sometimes the printer needs to be powered cycled to start responding again, then enable in CUPS. HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
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