Oh boy, I've really stepped in it this time.
I just upgraded a client's machine from 5.2 to 6.1 and now it doesn't print.
I've *never had a problem with printing failing on upgrade before!...
Anyway, when I send a job to lp, it goes into the queue, but the system just
sits there, acting like the printer needs to come back online (printer is up
and ready to go).
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waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st george 604 /home/george/axhome/spool0064a.ps 75130 bytes
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lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
1 entry in spool area
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
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I've tried power-cycling the printer, but that does nothing.
I've upgraded lpr to 0.47-1 and printtool to 3.43-1 (if that's relevant), and
I have "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" in my /etc/conf.modules and the
modules lp, parport_pc, and parport all load.
Is there something else simple I'm missing? There's not much in the parport
kernel documentation that seemed helpful. If I can't get this figured out by
Friday when they want to print invoices, they're not going to ba happy. I
might have to reinstall 5.2 (is a downgrade possible?) if nothing else...
-Michael
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