Output command results in English (was Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update)
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:48:51AM +0200, beatrice wrote: Please keep in mind that English is not my first language and if I forgot any relevant information, I'd be happy to provide it. Thanks, beatrice. ===from my aptitude logs. NOTE: my logs are localized in Italian. AGGIORNATO means UPDATED (or possibly UPGRADED, I'm not sure what the original used term is), INSTALLATO is INSTALLED, RIMOSSO is REMOVED. Aptitude 0.4.11.11: registro gio, mar 19 2009 15:41:07 +0100 === [AGGIORNATO] ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] ghostscript-x 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] gs-common 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] libgs8 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] libmpfr1ldbl 2.4.0-5 - 2.4.1-1 [AGGIORNATO] liborbit2 1:2.14.16-0.1 - 1:2.14.17-0.1 [AGGIORNATO] lxdvdrip 1.74-0.0 - 1.74-0.1 === To get your output in English, put LANG=C before the command: $ LANG=C aptitude ... -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Output command results in English (was Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update)
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, at 19:42 +1200, You wrote: [AGGIORNATO] liborbit2 1:2.14.16-0.1 - 1:2.14.17-0.1 [AGGIORNATO] lxdvdrip 1.74-0.0 - 1.74-0.1 === To get your output in English, put LANG=C before the command: $ LANG=C aptitude ... Thanks, I didn't know that and it will surely turn useful in the future. Unluckily, though, that was not the output of a command but a copy/paste of the log file, so it wouldn't have worked in this case. beatrice. -- And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot Little Gidding/Four Quartets (1942) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
beatrice wrote: I have a Brother HL2040 printer that worked perfectly well on my Debian testing with the .deb driver package Brother provides. I don't have CUPS installed, I use lpr. My printer stopped working without me changing any system configuration other than my usual package updating via aptitude. [..] The communication PC- printer should be working. When a job is sent to the printer the printer wakes up, makes all the hot air noise it usually does, plus the led light blink as it always did while it is receiving data. The length of the blinking still varies with the amount of data sent. I am afraid I can't help you now, but I have almost the same problem. The only difference is that my printer is a Brother HL2030 instead of a 2040. The rest is exactly as you describe. lpr, and the problem started yesterday after an upgrade. I'll let you and list know when I find a solution. I think it happened before (maybe a year ago) but I can't remember what I did to fix it. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: beatrice wrote: I have a Brother HL2040 printer that worked perfectly well on my Debian testing with the .deb driver package Brother provides. I don't have CUPS installed, I use lpr. My printer stopped working without me changing any system configuration other than my usual package updating via aptitude. [..] The communication PC- printer should be working. When a job is sent to the printer the printer wakes up, makes all the hot air noise it usually does, plus the led light blink as it always did while it is receiving data. The length of the blinking still varies with the amount of data sent. I am afraid I can't help you now, but I have almost the same problem. The only difference is that my printer is a Brother HL2030 instead of a 2040. The rest is exactly as you describe. lpr, and the problem started yesterday after an upgrade. I think I have the same problem here on two machines, one is Testing and the other is Sid. The printer in question is Brother HL-2070n. The problem has been since at least some weeks. It appears to have started after an update of the machines. When a job is sent, the green little light blinks once or twice (but not in the usual fashion) and then stops blinking and no job gets printed. Using cups and lpr. Tried from http://localhost:631 (to print a test page) and also from kpdf and acroread. Nothing prints. However, jobs sent from a Windows laptop print without any problem. Would love to know if somebody finds out what the problem is and how to solve it. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
The problem is, as you suspected, caused by ghostscript. I downgraded to version 8.63 and it started to work again. You have to downgrade 3 packages: libgs8, ghostscript, and ghostscript-x. With any luck, the 8.63 versions of these packages are still in your /var/cache/apt/archives, and you can install them with dpkg -i. Otherwise you must go to packages.debian.org and get the 8.62 versions from stable; it seems that 8.63 is no longer available. Version 8.64 gives an irrecoverable error. I haven't found out yet how Brother's way of using ghostscript triggers this error. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
On Friday 03 April 2009, at 16:13 +0200, You wrote: Hi! With any luck, the 8.63 versions of these packages are still in your /var/cache/apt/archives, and you can install them with dpkg -i. Otherwise you must go to packages.debian.org and get the 8.62 versions from stable; it seems that 8.63 is no longer available. I clean the cache quite regularly so sadly I don't have them anymore... I'll go with the stable version. Version 8.64 gives an irrecoverable error. I haven't found out yet how Brother's way of using ghostscript triggers this error. I think I'll write a couple lines to Brother's customer service anyway, now that I know I am not the only one with this problem. Thanks for the help. beatrice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
beatrice wrote: I think I'll write a couple lines to Brother's customer service anyway, now that I know I am not the only one with this problem. I don't know if the error is with Brother or with ghostscript. In the meantime I filed a bug against ghostscript: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522417 Actually I *think* that the error is with ghostscript. The Brother scripts look OK to me. I hope that 8.62 works for you; didn't try it myself. And indeed, it happened before, so I stopped upgrading ghostscript for a while, I remember now. I am not sure which previous version did not work. Hope it was not 8.62.. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
Hi! I have a Brother HL2040 printer that worked perfectly well on my Debian testing with the .deb driver package Brother provides. I don't have CUPS installed, I use lpr. My printer stopped working without me changing any system configuration other than my usual package updating via aptitude. I am afraid this is gonna be a it's not working mail with little added information, but I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction and even tell me if I can report this as a bug (wishlist maybe). Or maybe someone is experiencing the same problem. What I know. When I try to print something, the queue system works fine, printing jobs get queued, if the printer is off they remain in the queue, when the printer is turned on they are sent to the printer. The communication PC- printer should be working. When a job is sent to the printer the printer wakes up, makes all the hot air noise it usually does, plus the led light blink as it always did while it is receiving data. The length of the blinking still varies with the amount of data sent. Nothing at all is printed, it doesn't even spit out white pages, it just does nothing. The printer itself works, the test page gets written OK. I don't print every day so I can pinpoint the problem in a time-range from last successful printing to problem discovery. In that time range I did the updating jobs you can see in the relevant parts of my aptitude logs that I quoted at the end of this message. I strongly suspect the ghostscript and libgs8 packages in the first part of the log to be what caused it, tho I am not sure. I tried updating my Brother drivers downloading and installing the latest version (I had quite an old one but it worked well so I never bothered to get a newer one). It didn't change a thing. Please keep in mind that English is not my first language and if I forgot any relevant information, I'd be happy to provide it. Thanks, beatrice. ===from my aptitude logs. NOTE: my logs are localized in Italian. AGGIORNATO means UPDATED (or possibly UPGRADED, I'm not sure what the original used term is), INSTALLATO is INSTALLED, RIMOSSO is REMOVED. Aptitude 0.4.11.11: registro gio, mar 19 2009 15:41:07 +0100 === [AGGIORNATO] ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] ghostscript-x 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] gs-common 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] libgs8 8.63.dfsg.1-2 - 8.64~dfsg-1 [AGGIORNATO] libmpfr1ldbl 2.4.0-5 - 2.4.1-1 [AGGIORNATO] liborbit2 1:2.14.16-0.1 - 1:2.14.17-0.1 [AGGIORNATO] lxdvdrip 1.74-0.0 - 1.74-0.1 === Aptitude 0.4.11.11: registro mar, mar 24 2009 15:45:45 +0100 === [INSTALLATO, DIPENDENZA] libglade2-0 [INSTALLATO, DIPENDENZA] libicu40 [RIMOSSO, DIPENDENZA] libxcb-xlib0 [AGGIORNATO] cdlabelgen 4.1.0-1 - 4.1.0-2 [AGGIORNATO] dictionaries-common 1.0.0 - 1.2.0 [AGGIORNATO] gcompris 8.4.4-1.1 - 8.4.8-1 [AGGIORNATO] gcompris-data 8.4.4-1.1 - 8.4.8-1 [AGGIORNATO] gcompris-sound-en 8.4.4-1.1 - 8.4.8-1 [AGGIORNATO] gcompris-sound-it 8.4.4-1.1 - 8.4.8-1 [AGGIORNATO] grep 2.5.4-2 - 2.5.4-3 [AGGIORNATO] groff-base 1.18.1.1-21 - 1.18.1.1-22 [AGGIORNATO] hal-info 20090202-1 - 20090309-1 [AGGIORNATO] hellanzb 0.13-3 - 0.13-4 [AGGIORNATO] iceweasel 3.0.6-1 - 3.0.7-1 [AGGIORNATO] imagemagick 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-3 - 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1 [AGGIORNATO] info 4.11.dfsg.1-4 - 4.13a.dfsg.1-1 [AGGIORNATO] libboost-date-time1.34.1 1.34.1-15 - 1.34.1-15+b1 [AGGIORNATO] libboost-filesystem1.34.1 1.34.1-15 - 1.34.1-15+b1 [AGGIORNATO] libboost-signals1.34.1 1.34.1-15 - 1.34.1-15+b1 [AGGIORNATO] libboost-thread1.34.1 1.34.1-15 - 1.34.1-15+b1 [AGGIORNATO] libdes425-3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 - 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11 [AGGIORNATO] libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.27-4 - 2:1.02.30-3 [AGGIORNATO] libgssapi-krb5-2 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 - 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11 [AGGIORNATO] libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1 - 2.14.7-4+b1 [AGGIORNATO] libgtk2.0-bin 2.12.12-1 - 2.14.7-4 [AGGIORNATO] libgtk2.0-common 2.12.12-1 - 2.14.7-4 [AGGIORNATO] libk5crypto3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 - 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11 [AGGIORNATO] libkrb5-3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 - 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11 [AGGIORNATO] libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 - 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11 [AGGIORNATO] libkrb5support0 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 - 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11 [AGGIORNATO] libmagick++10 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-3 - 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1 [AGGIORNATO] libmagick10 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-3 - 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1 [AGGIORNATO] libmozjs1d 1.9.0.6-1 - 1.9.0.7-1 [AGGIORNATO] libnotify-bin 0.4.4-3 - 0.4.5-1 [AGGIORNATO] libnotify1 0.4.4-3 - 0.4.5-1 [AGGIORNATO] librsvg2-2 2.22.2-4 - 2.22.3-2 [AGGIORNATO] librsvg2-common 2.22.2-4 - 2.22.3-2 [AGGIORNATO] libsamplerate0 0.1.4-1 - 0.1.7-2 [AGGIORNATO] libwebkit-1.0-1 1.0.1-4 - 1.0.1-4+b1 [AGGIORNATO] libwnck-common 2.22.3-1 - 2.24.2-2 [AGGIORNATO] libwnck22 2.22.3-1 - 2.24.2-2 [AGGIORNATO] libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 -
