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Old 09-16-2004, 05:47 AM   #1
TroelsSmit
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My printer worked, suddenly it doesn't


Hi all,

My printer EPSON EPL-5700L worked fine two days ago, I could print test pages from:
http://localhost:631/printers
where I have my printer:
Epson EPL-5700L Foomatic/epl5700l (recommended) installed to URI:
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0
I could also print doing a:
> lp -dep1 a_ps_file.ps

Now suddenly nothing happens when I try to print, so I turned on cups log mode to debug and checked:
/var/log/cups/
after a restart of cupsd.

When I try to print I can find the following information:

0. From DMESG:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, EPSON EPL-5700L
lp0: using parport0 (polling).

1. from the cups web control system:
ep1-46 6.ps troels 113k completed at Thu 09 Sep 2004 04:02:14 PM CEST
ep1-54 ExamProjectApplication.ps troels 19k aborted
ep1-55 Test Page root 15k aborted

so suddenly jobs have been aborted !!

2. /var/log/cups/access.log
localhost - - [09/Sep/2004:16:01:07 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 137
localhost - - [09/Sep/2004:16:01:07 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 137
localhost - - [09/Sep/2004:16:01:07 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 77
localhost - - [09/Sep/2004:16:01:07 +0200] "POST /printers/ep1 HTTP/1.1" 200
64997

suddenly changes more recently to:
localhost - - [16/Sep/2004:12:32:02 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 143
localhost - - [16/Sep/2004:12:32:03 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 863
localhost - - [16/Sep/2004:12:32:03 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 425
localhost - root [16/Sep/2004:12:32:02 +0200] "GET /printers/ep1 HTTP/1.1" 20
0 3383

3. /var/log/cups/error.log
D [16/Sep/2004:12:35:23 +0200] AcceptClient: 7 from localhost:631.
D [16/Sep/2004:12:35:23 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:35:23 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:35:23 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:35:23 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:35:23 +0200] CloseClient: 7
D [16/Sep/2004:12:36:37 +0200] CloseClient: 5
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] AcceptClient: 5 from localhost:631.
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] ReadClient: 5 GET /printers/ep1 HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] CGI /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi started
- PID = 2645
I [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (
pid=2645)
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] SendCommand: 5 file=8
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] AcceptClient: 7 from localhost:631.
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:00 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:01 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:01 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:01 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:01 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:01 +0200] CloseClient: 7
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:03 +0200] ReadClient: 5 GET /printers/ep1?which_jobs=com
pleted HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:03 +0200] CGI /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi started
- PID = 2648
I [16/Sep/2004:12:38:03 +0200] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (
pid=2648)
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:03 +0200] SendCommand: 5 file=8
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:03 +0200] AcceptClient: 7 from localhost:631.
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:03 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:03 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:05 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:05 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:05 +0200] ReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:05 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=1
D [16/Sep/2004:12:38:05 +0200] CloseClient: 7

Thank you very MUCH for helping !

Troels Smit
 
Old 09-17-2004, 09:51 PM   #2
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did u recompile the kernel recently? because you may have forgotten to check parallel suppor and parallel printer support in the kernel
 
Old 09-19-2004, 01:20 PM   #3
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Hi,

I have not recompiled the kernel in that time, only added a driver ...

Anycase, how do I check that I have parrallel support ? Doesn't it seem so when DMESG finds "epson" printer on parrallel0 ??
 
  


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