On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:58:27 -0800 > Dan Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > All my printers are networked via ethernet. I have an ancient desktop > Laserjet > > > 4 Plus whose IP address is 192.168.0.15. I can ping it fine. But I > can't seem > > > to send a print job to it. > > > > > > First, I migrated all my printer setups from my old Ubuntu hard disk. I > did > > > this by copying /etc/init.d/cups/cups.conf and the entire contents of > the ppd > > > folder. I also restarted the computer. The printers appear in the > Printer > > > configuration window. I can send a test page to it from any of the > three > > > drivers that I have installed, and the test page appears in the print > queue. > > > However, in the print queue it is listed as pending. > > > > > > The printer is enabled, accepting jobs. I can't find anything wrong in > the GUI > > > for the driver properties. However, looking at top the cupsd service is > not > > > running. I thought you started and stopped CUPS with > > > > > > /etc/init.d/cups/ ./cups stop/start > > > > Huh? > > I meant, first cd to /etc/init.d/cups/ and then do either ./cups stop or > ./cups > start. > > > > But that does not work, and there doesn't seem to be any executable > files in > > > the folder anyway. I know in top when it is running it is listed as > cupsd, but > > > that doesn't work either. > > > > > > I have also restarted the computer, but the cupsd service is still not > running. > > > I think it is supposed to start automatically whenever an app sends a > print job > > > to a printer, but I'm not sure about that. > > > > > > I really need to get my printers working ASAP. > > > > /etc/init.d/cups start > > > > or (a bit of a Red Hat-ism): > > > > service cups start > > Well, the ./cups start command did not work. But the service command did > the > job. I just printed a test page and all appears well. > > However, there remains the question why CUPS stopped in the first place. I > had > rebooted the computer, so if it starts on boot, then it should have been > running. Or if it starts only when the user sends a print job, it still > should > have been started when I sent numerous test pages to the printer. > > By sheer coincidence the Fedora Update Manager popped up just before I > checked > mail. There were 35 updates, and two of them involved CUPS. I had just > applied > the updates, and a few minutes later did the service command. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > find your cups.log and see if it says anything interesting. and/or, look up how to enable a service to start on boot for your current distro. maybe it just isn't set up to on yours. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
