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On 16/06/11 01:21, Troy Rollo wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2011 00:04:25 Heracles wrote: > > >> It is an HP P1005 Laserjet. > >> As it worked in 11.04 loses the settings etc. each time it is restarted > >> whereas 10.10 did not, I believe it is a problem in 11.04. > >> > >> I'm considering going back to 10.10. > > > Have you tried restarting cups? (sudo sh /etc/init.d/cups restart). If > that works, then it is likely a problem with the order in which daemons > are being started at boot (which could in principle affect some HP > printers). If that is your problem it might be fixed by adding "sh > /etc/init.d/cups restart" to /etc/rc.local. > > > The only other remotely rational culprit I can think of would be your > printer settings being symlinked into a directory in /tmp and /var/tmp, > which would be a fairly effective way of losing settings on reboot > (especially if they are ram disks). > > > Regards, > > Troy Rollo Thanks Troy, I tried that but no luck. I have copied the cups log for the relevant period. It seems OK but still no printout without starting from scratch again. Cups Log: localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:14:54:55 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 401 244 CUPS-Get-Devices successful-ok localhost - root [16/Jun/2011:14:54:55 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1462 CUPS-Get-Devices - localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:14:54:57 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 401 244 CUPS-Get-Devices successful-ok localhost - root [16/Jun/2011:14:54:57 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1462 CUPS-Get-Devices - localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:14:54:57 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 4483179 CUPS-Get-PPDs - localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:14:58:35 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 256 Create-Printer-Subscription successful-ok localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:14:58:45 +1000] "POST /printers/Hewlett-Packard-HP-LaserJet-P1005 HTTP/1.1" 200 205812 Print-Job succe$ localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:14:58:45 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 345 Create-Printer-Subscription successful-ok localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:15:00:39 +1000] "POST /printers/Hewlett-Packard-HP-LaserJet-P1005 HTTP/1.1" 200 280 Print-Job successf$ localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:15:00:43 +1000] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 181 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok localhost - heracles [16/Jun/2011:15:00:43 +1000] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 181 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok localhost - - [16/Jun/2011:15:00:57 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 156 Cancel-Subscription successful-ok Heracles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk35j3wACgkQybPcBAs9CE+WAgCfR8oBCf0c0CyYfvZe2wqv6Pj3 2EsAoIXLC8zElp79icyqLboWjckAKqj0 =tnM0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html