> > > > 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.
For what it's worth, I administer a box (also for my Dad) with this same problem. Having to restart the printer at an obscure URL with the root password every once in a while has not helped me confince them of the merits of Linux! The computer is off right now, so I can't get the exact logs for you. However, when inspecting it earlier I noticed cups saying that a print job has exited with a non-zero status code, and that entry seemed to correlate the the printer becoming "Stopped". I was at a lost as to how to convince CUPS to keep the printer "Started" no matter what happens to an individual print job -- and, the only forums I could find reporting this error remain unsolved. > > > > 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. Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and set the LogLevel to debug. Then, restart cups and you'll find *lots* more info in /var/log/cups/* On a side note, this problem would be a little less severe if I could restart the printer without being root. Can anyone provide a hint for that? > Don't know where metalog > puts what you might be interested in. > You can probably figure out from metalog's config where it puts stuff; look for it in /etc/*metalog* Also, it is often a default setting to log everything to vt-12, which you can see by pressing <CTRL><ALT><F12>. (Return to your GUI with <CTRL><ALT><F7>.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
