From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 00:37:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2443339 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 00:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8504C2AB for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 00:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id s260RJSs064059 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:27:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <5317C0E7.5010105@dreamchaser.org> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:27:19 -0700 From: Gary Aitken User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130730 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: printer woes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:27:19 -0700 (MST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:37:34 -0000 Returned from being out a month, booted up, turned on printers... printers are sitting on network at dedicated ip addrs. When I try to print something from gimp using gutenprint, it generates the print data and control files in the spool directory (cf..., df...) However, the printer never wakes up and does anything. lpd is running, and the lock file indicates the pid of one of the lpd processes There is an errs.xxxxxx file which is empty (how is this used??) status file has a message from when I set it and it never seems to change Any ideas why the lpd process isn't doing anything? cups is installed and cupsd is running, although it's my understanding gutenprint from gimp bypasses cups; nothing shows up in the cups queues, no surprise there. The gutenprint dialog shows three printers: Printer HP 8500 epson3880 Attempting to print to the hp or epson fails; printing to Printer prints fine to the hp8500, which is the first printer listed in /etc/printcap epson attempts leave the cf and df files in the printer's spool directory, with no errors listed in /var/log/lpd-errs hp attempts leave no cf or df files in the printer's spool directory, and the following lines show up in the printer-specific error log: GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 (repeated 5 times) and the following in /var/log/lpd-errs: Mar 5 17:10:30 breakaway lpd[19654]: lp: lost connection Mar 5 17:10:30 breakaway lpd[19654]: restarting lp (repeat previous two 3 more times) Mar 5 17:10:30 breakaway lpd[19654]: lp: lost connection Mar 5 17:10:30 breakaway lpd[19654]: lp: job could not be sent to remote host (cfA514breakaway.dreamchaser.org) Mar 5 17:10:30 breakaway lpd[19654]: mail sent to user garya about job on printer lp (FATALERR) Print commands in the gutenprint dialog are as follows: Printer lp -s Printer Queue:(Default Printer) HP 8500 lp -s -d 'HP_Officejet_Pro_8500_A909g' -oraw Printer Queue:HP_Officejet_Pro_8500_A909g epson3880 lp -s -d 'Epson_Stylus_Pro_3880' -oraw Printer Queue:Epson_Stylus_Pro_3880 If I select the hp or epson printer and set its print cmds and que to match those of "Printer", I still get errors and no output. arrgh!