[OpenIndiana-discuss] cups trouble

[Goetz T. Fischer]

hi all,

yes i know it's a popular joke but in my case right now it really is true: my printer doesn't print 
anymore.
i don't print much so i can't tell exactly when it stopped working. could be a couple of months 
give or take.

i'm using cups and hal and the printer is connected via usb and so far it worked fine. right now 
however it still looks fine from the indiana side but the printer simply does nothing. the cups 
error log shows nothing, the printing job is listed without errors either and messages looks like 
this:

Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb6bc,83) operating at full 
speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: printer at 2, usbprn3 at bus address 2
Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] OKI DATA CORP USB Device
Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usbprn3 is /pci at 0,0/pci1734,10fd at 1d,1/printer at 2
Jul 25 21:20:24 oibox genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 0,0/pci1734,10fd at 1d,1/printer at 2 (usbprn3) 
online

of course i tried to delete and add the printer again in cups, tried with foomatic instead of 
gutenprint, used a different usb port and so on but nothing helped. then just to make sure the 
hardware is okay, i booted that same box with knoppix and was able to print with that with cups 
right away. so apparently the problem seems to be on the indiana side.

one thing i noticed is that in the cups webui the jobs are finished very quickly. that could 
indicate that the problem is the transmission i.e. nothing gets actually sent to the printer.

for now i'm out of ideas. any hints are welcome!

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