On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:54:19 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:27:06 -0800 > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > We've got a nice Gentoo box that's been working pretty well for > > about 16 months but for some reason printing continues to be sort of > > problematic. No idea if this is a Gentoo issue or a CUPS issue. Thanks > > in advance. > > > > For whatever reason the printer will, at times, just go off line. > > It's an Epson All-in-One printer/scanner/copier. When it's online it > > works fine. However it goes off line at odd times and then I have to > > ssh into the box and start it up as my dad, now in his late 70's, is > > not administering it at all. > > What do you mean by "off-line" - I usually take this to mean an > electrical disconnection by, for example, pushing the "offline" button > on the printer. do you mean cupsd stops running or something? Do you > mean the printer physically turns itself off?
Oh, sorry. I open CUPS manager in Mozilla (localhost:631) and look at the printer. I'm told it's 'Stopped'. There's a button there to 'Start' the printer which I do and it starts printing whatever is in the print queue. > > Incidentally I have a problem where my wife cannot print from her win2k > box unless I restart hpoj [1], cupsd and samba in somewhat random order > until it works. Very annoying. perhaps related. > > you haven't told us whteher your father is printing from gentoo or > somewhere else on his lan (if he has one). Printing from Gentoo only. I don't run Samba on this machine and the printer isn't (or shouldn't be) shared. > > [1] hpoj isn't relevant to you, it is a service related to hp printers > > > > Why do printers go off line in Linux? The last time it happened he > > had received a warning message earlier in the day in dmesg about > > magenta ink being low. Does CUPS/Linux automatically take a printer > > off line for that sort of reason? Can that be changed? > > > > This morning I'm seeing the following in dmesg: > > > > usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 3 > > drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if > > 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0801 > > usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3 > > drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: removed > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: wakeup > > usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 > > drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if > > 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0801 > > usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 4 > > drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: removed > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: wakeup > > > > OK, how far apart are these messages, dmesg doesn't tell you, but > /var/log/syslog | /var/log/klog may do. Don't have either AFAICT: gandalf log # ls Xorg.0.log critical everything lastlog pwdfail wtmp Xorg.0.log.old crond ftpd mail scrollkeeper.log xdm.log apache2 cups gdm news sshd apcupsd.events emerge.log kernel ntpd.log telnet gandalf log # ps aux | grep log root 6827 0.0 0.1 1516 664 ? Ss Jan28 0:00 metalog [MASTER] root 6828 0.0 0.1 1468 536 ? S Jan28 0:00 metalog [KERNEL] Looked in everything/current and saw nothing interesting. Looked in the cups error log. Nothing there either. Don't know where metalog puts what you might be interested in. If I shouldn't be using metalog and there are some simple instructions on how to change to something else I'd be happy to do that. This is the only machine I have using that. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
