Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is finished printed fine, or if one is lucky as you, ends with dead process logged. You should enable full debug level for cupsd log to identify the exact cause of problem, find the error then I could give you an advice how to correct. LogLevel debug or debug2 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
Last time it happened to me, the reason was a missing link to a binary which is called by foomatic and was moved somewhere else. I don't remember exact details. Previous foomatic failures had different cause but identical behavior (no symptomes at all), so I suggest to have at least debug level on all the time. After you get a working setup, consider locking current versions of foomatic and cups via masking any future version, on laptop you will have no security problem if some vulnerbilty will be discovered in them so you have no real need to update. -- Petr On Thursday 04 May 2006 16:18, A. R. wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a problem with CUPS. (I think) > I have Gentoo on my laptop and I was able to print just fine to any of > the network printers here at work, but all of a sudden this is not > working anymore. > When I try to print, it looks like the job is being sent to the > printer, but nothing comes out of it. > Now, I am the "type" that updates Gentoo pretty much every other day, > so I am sure I must have broken something in one of the last > updates... > > Here is what I found in the /var/logs/cups/error_log file: > > <log snip> > > Adding start banner page "none" to job 336. > I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 336. > I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Job 336 queued on 'Happy' by 'ar'. > I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 12592) for job 336. > I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 12593) for job 336. > I [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] Started backend > /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 12594) for job 336. > E [03/May/2006:16:49:23 -0400] PID 12593 stopped with status 22! > > > <log snip ends> > > > I have been using Gentoo for the past 2 years and I never had a > problem like this before... > > I have searched in Google with no luck. > Could somebody please help? > > Thank you, > > - AR -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
