On 2008-02-28, Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:17 -0600, John Thompson wrote: >> I'm running Fedora8 x86-64 with cups-1.3.6-2fc8 and print to an Epson >> C88 printer attached to an EpsonNet print server. Other machines on my >> home network (Vista, slackware, FreeBSD) can print just fine with this >> setup, but for some reason on the Fedora8 machine print jobs are never >> removed from the queue after the print job completes. The job just sits >> there as "active" (even though the entire document has printed), and >> blocks subsequent print jobs until I manually "lprm" the job. Then the >> next job prints, and again sits there until I lprm that job, and so on. >> >> Cups is configured identically on my slackware machine but on that >> machine the jobs are removed properly. >> >> What should I be looking for to fix this? > Sounds like a problem with the CUPS 'socket' backend. Turn up the > debugging level with 'cupsctl --debug-logging', submit a print job, and > take a look in /var/log/cups/error_log. Perhaps the backend gives some > clue about what it's up to. Here's what the cups error-log shows when I print a test page: I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:08 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10436) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10437) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] [Job 10] Adding start banner page "none". I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] [Job 10] Adding job file of type application/postscript. I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] [Job 10] Adding end banner page "none". I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] [Job 10] Queued on "EC88" by "anonymous". I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] [Job 10] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 10438) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] [Job 10] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 10439) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:15 -0600] [Job 10] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/http (PID 10440) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:17 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10450) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:27 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10451) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:37 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10495) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:48 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10498) I [02/Mar/2008:10:55:58 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10499) I [02/Mar/2008:10:56:02 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=10501) I [02/Mar/2008:10:56:59 -0600] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=10507) N [02/Mar/2008:10:57:16 -0600] [Job 10] Print file accepted - job ID 4. -- John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
