I did everything again, this is what I did: Power off printer. cancel -a Update to newest PPA - 1.5.3-0ubuntu2~ppa1. Reboot computer.
On rebooting: al@al-desktop:~$ date && cancel -a Sat May 26 12:09:54 BST 2012 al@al-desktop:~$ date && sudo logrotate -fv /etc/logrotate.d/cups Sat May 26 12:10:01 BST 2012 [sudo] password for al: reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/cups reading config info for /var/log/cups/*log Handling 1 logs rotating pattern: /var/log/cups/*log forced from command line (7 rotations) empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed considering log /var/log/cups/access_log log needs rotating considering log /var/log/cups/error_log log needs rotating considering log /var/log/cups/page_log log does not need rotating rotating log /var/log/cups/access_log, log->rotateCount is 7 dateext suffix '-20120526' glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.7.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.8.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 7), renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.6.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.7.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 6), renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.5.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.6.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 5), renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.4.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.5.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 4), renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.3.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.4.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 3), renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.2.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.3.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 2), renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.1.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.2.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 1), renaming /var/log/cups/access_log.0.gz to /var/log/cups/access_log.1.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 0), old log /var/log/cups/access_log.0.gz does not exist rotating log /var/log/cups/error_log, log->rotateCount is 7 dateext suffix '-20120526' glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.7.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.8.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 7), renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.6.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.7.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 6), renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.5.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.6.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 5), renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.4.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.5.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 4), renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.3.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.4.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 3), renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.2.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.3.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 2), renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.1.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.2.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 1), renaming /var/log/cups/error_log.0.gz to /var/log/cups/error_log.1.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 0), old log /var/log/cups/error_log.0.gz does not exist renaming /var/log/cups/access_log to /var/log/cups/access_log.1 creating new /var/log/cups/access_log mode = 0640 uid = 0 gid = 109 renaming /var/log/cups/error_log to /var/log/cups/error_log.1 creating new /var/log/cups/error_log mode = 0640 uid = 0 gid = 109 running postrotate script compressing log with: /bin/gzip removing old log /var/log/cups/access_log.8.gz compressing log with: /bin/gzip removing old log /var/log/cups/error_log.8.gz al@al-desktop:~$ date && echo plug in printer Sat May 26 12:10:23 BST 2012 plug in printer al@al-desktop:~$ date && echo print a file Sat May 26 12:10:57 BST 2012 print a file al@al-desktop:~$ date && echo printed ok Sat May 26 12:11:35 BST 2012 printed ok al@al-desktop:~$ date && echo print it again Sat May 26 12:11:53 BST 2012 print it again -- THIS TIME IT DOES NOT PRINT -- al@al-desktop:~$ date && cp /var/log/cups/error_log ~ Sat May 26 12:12:24 BST 2012 al@al-desktop:~$ ls -lh error_log -rw-r----- 1 al al 131K May 26 12:12 error_log al@al-desktop:~$ ** Attachment added: "error_log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/987485/+attachment/3163962/+files/error_log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987485 Title: Can only print once with USB to parallel adapter and HP 4L To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/987485/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
