Package: cupsys Version: 1.3.5-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I don't use the printer very often so I can't tell when it worked the last time (but it did exactly in the described configuration). I have a Kyocera FS-1000 printer connected via a USB to parallel adapter. Previously I used some HP laserjet PCL driver, but due to the current problems, i switched to the gutenprint driver which should support my printer.
After noticing that the printer doesn't work anymore, I removed it and tried the cups auto detection (everthing via the cups webgui). It didn't report anything. From the output below you can see that the usb backend of cups does report the printer. In a dpkg-reconfigure cupsys the usb backend is switched on (parallel too, only scsi and serial are off). Then I manually added the printer to cups (via webgui). I wasn't provided to select the local usb port, but on the next page I set the port to usb://Kyocera/FS-1000. With this configuration I tried the HPLJ PCL 4 and the gutenprint driver. Both result in the status "Printing page 1, 6%" (sometimes 22%, value differs depending on the used driver). Then the usb process from the cupsys backend consumes all my CPU unitl I abort the print job. The printer status then doesn't change until I stop and start it. I already switched cups logging to debug level, but I didn't find anything that gives me a hint. dmesg output also doesn't return anything suspicious. See some output # lpinfo -v network socket network http network ipp network lpd network smb notice that usb is missing (no idea why, but it's also not available in the webgui when adding a new printer) #lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 013: ID 04a9:2630 Canon, Inc. Bus 001 Device 012: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port Bus 001 Device 011: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub" Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0424:2504 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 here you can see my usb to parallel adapter which already worked. #/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb direct usb://Kyocera/FS-1000 "Kyocera FS-1000" "Kyocera FS-1000 USB #1" "ID:FS-1000;MFG:Kyocera;CMD:PCLXL,PCL5E,PJL;MDL:FS-1000;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Kyocera FS-1000;CID:HP Laserjet 2100;" direct usb://Canon/MP700 "Canon MP700" "Canon MP700 USB #2" "MFG:Canon;CMD:BJL,BJRaster3,BSCC,TXT01;MDL:MP700;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon MP700;VER:1.01;STA:10;as" please ignore the 2nd printer, switching it off doesn't help anything. # lsmod |grep usb usblp 13568 0 jürgen --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-2-1 Debian Release: lenny/sid 500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org 500 unstable mi.mirror.garr.it 500 unstable ftp.tuke.sk 500 unstable ftp.de.debian.org 500 unstable ftp.at.debian.org 500 unstable debian.inode.at --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =============================================-+-================ adduser | 3.105 cupsys-common | 1.3.5-1 debconf (>= 1.2.9) | 1.5.17 OR debconf-2.0 | ghostscript | 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3 OR gs-esp | 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 (>= 0.6.13) | 0.6.21-2 libc6 (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-5 libcupsimage2 (>= 1.3.0) | 1.3.5-1 libcupsys2 (>= 1.3.4) | 1.3.5-1 libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1) | 1.1.2-1 libgnutls13 (>= 2.0.4-0) | 2.0.4-1 libkrb53 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) | 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1) | 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5 libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1) | 0.99.7.1-5 libpaper1 | 1.1.23 libslp1 | 1.2.1-6.2 lsb-base (>= 3) | 3.1-24 perl-modules | 5.8.8-12 poppler-utils | OR xpdf-utils | 3.02-1.3 procps | 1:3.2.7-5 ssl-cert (>= 1.0.11) | 1.0.14