Hello all, It seems I am fighting a losing battle with cups once again. I swear, cups is the single most difficult app I have ever had to deal with...
Background: HP Business InkJet 1200 cups 1.1.23-5 hplip 0.9.7-1 foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-1 foomatic-filters 3.0.2-1 As best I can tell (printer was offline for a while, lost the cable during a move) the problem began with an update to Arch. Apparently the hpijs driver package was replaced with hplip. Nothing has worked since then. First of all, the old printer setup would just stop dead, so I deleted it and created a new printer in cups. After much cursing and reboots, I finally got the printer setup, as at first cups or lpinfo -v would not even detect the PP printer. Anyway, I set up the hplip daemon in rc.conf before cups, as was instructed. At first I was just getting "host busy, will try in 30 seconds" over and over. After more cursing, and more rebooting I finally got to the point where it would print a test page. (but don't know how!) Of course, when doing the test page the paper jammed. The printer puked and died. After cycling the power, changing the paper, I tried the test page again. Nothing happened, at least, nothing printed. When I start a print job I get 8 processes,including 3: /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip" 2 ghostscript (gs), and the last three: sh -c cat >&3 cat hpijs All of these processes just hang. In fact, they have been running all night. There are no errors in the cups log, and I have it set to debug so it is very verbose. I checked lpinfo -m and all the modules are hpijs. What does hplip do? I tried hp-toolbox and it says no devices found, and tells me to create one even though the printer is now created and has status of "accepting jobs" in the cups web interface. I am so lost here, and I am out of ideas. Does anyone have a tip or idea of what is up? I am sorry for this long rambling post but I am near the point of chucking this damn thing out the window. If there is any info you would like to see please just ask... Thank you, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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