And indeed, installing the cupsomatic from Mandrake 9.0 solved this
problem.
Now I can go and debug the actual printing problem I had for a month!
(printing stops/slows down at the half of the CUPS test page, printer gets a
timeout (presumably, the middle led starts flashing orange) and when I press
the middle button, the page is ejected half printed. The job is still in the
queue but does not print anymore.
Removing the job does not help.
From now on all my jobs will be queued and none print anymore :-(
Best
John
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 22:02, John van Spaandonk wrote:
> Wow Brian,
>
> I'm very happy that I read this email.
> I seem to have the same problem with the latest cooker (this evening of
> March 5th)
>
> I have an HP deskjet 970CXi on the USB.
> A few days ago it suddenly did not work after urpmi --auto-select,
> so I reinstalled all the printer software.
> No worko!
>
> I just set the cups log level to debug and restarted the cups daemon.
> It looks like yours!
>
> The relevant section from /var/log/cups/error_log:
>
> ...
>
> (PID 2817) for job 5.
> D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] StartJob: backend =
> "/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb" D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] StartJob:
> filterfds[0] = -1, 10
> D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb",
> 0xbffefd20, 0xbffef1c0, 9, 10, 8)
> E [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] PID 2817 stopped with status 22!
> I [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
> (PID 2818) for job 5.
> D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0
> D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] [Job 5] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No
> such file or directory
> D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] CloseClient() 6
> D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] CloseClient() 3
>
> and then the job is canceled.
>
> Now I will go and get the cuspmatic from Mandrake 9.0 which I luckily still
> have around somewhere!
>
> ps. Do you have this problem too: each KDE program from which I print
> crashes after the printer dialog window is shown.
> I think this should never happen, whatever CUPS does!
>
> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 21:23, brian wrote:
> > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-05 21:23
> > ------- I installed the latest cups software with urpmi, but the problem
> > still occurs. I hope I'm not missing some obvious configuration step.
> > Let me know what to try next.
> >
> > The debug error I get is:
> > D [05/Mar/2003:15:17:07 -0500] [Job 62] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic:
> > No such file or directory
> >
> > The software versions are:
> >
> > $ rpm -qa | grep -e cups -e foo
> > foomatic-filters-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk
> > cups-1.1.19-0.2mdk
> > foomatic-db-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk
> > cups-common-1.1.19-0.2mdk
> > foomatic-db-engine-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk
> > libcups1-1.1.19-0.2mdk
> > cups-drivers-1.1-97mdk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > ------- Reminder: -------
> > assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > status: UNCONFIRMED
> > creation_date:
> > description:
> > Upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.1 beta3 and ran printerdrake to
> > configure for remote cups server/Tektronix Phaser 850 (postscript).
> > Could not print test pages. Set cups LogLevel to debug and saw
> > "usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No such file or directory" in
> > /var/log/cups/error_log. Could not locate the file in any cups or
> > foomatic package in the 9.1 beta3 distribution. Copied cupsomatic from a
> > Mandrake 9.0 system, and printer now works fine. On 9.0, cupsomatic is
> > installed with the foomatic package. On 9.1, a new foomatic-db package
> > appears to install similar files, but not cupsomatic.
