Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thanks to everyone sent help. The printer is working now. I feel like a fool. The cable was loose. I would have expected an error message that the printer was not ready. There probably was an error message, it just didn't go anywhere that I would see it, or find it afterwards. -- Marc Shap

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > Check under /var/log - there's lpr.log, and lprng may write to syslog or > > additional ones as well. I'm not sure, since I use CUPS here. > > /var/log/lpr has a size of 0 > > > If so, try ps ax - do you see an lpr(ng) process? If not, it's n

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > No. No upgrades. I have powered down the system completely and > > restarted. Twice. The results are the same. lpq still says 'no server > > active'. lprng gets started when the system reboots and I didn't see > > any errors on boot. Wou

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > No. No upgrades. I have powered down the system completely and > restarted. Twice. The results are the same. lpq still says 'no server > active'. lprng gets started when the system reboots and I didn't see > any errors on boot. Would the mes

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing > > through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp > > filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get > > nothing. > > > > If I do 'lpq

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing > through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp > filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get > nothing. > > If I do 'lpq' it says : >

Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get nothing. If I do 'lpq' it says : Printer: lp@local 'HP Deskjet 400' Queue: no printable jobs