From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 06:28:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0692F6FE for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 06:28:01 +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 A6E9F264 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 06:28:00 +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 s266RwvV065008; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 23:27:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <5318156E.8070802@dreamchaser.org> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:27:58 -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: Warren Block Subject: Re: printer woes References: <5317C0E7.5010105@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: 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 23:27:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List 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 06:28:01 -0000 On 03/05/14 21:03, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> 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? > > At a guess, because the CUPS lpr is not submitting jobs to it? What > does 'lpc status all' say? $ lpc status all lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries in spool area printer idle epson: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 2 entries in spool area printer idle >> 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 > > Use the Gutenprint "Setup Printer" button to configure how the job is > sent. For base lpr/lpd, use "Custom Command" with "/usr/bin/lpr > -Pepson3880", no space after the -P. The path to lpr is important > because CUPS has an alternate version. The command was set to lp; also tried lpr; both of which default to /usr/bin. Making the path specific did not change anything. However, forcing the path to the cups version (/usr/local/bin/lp) caused the hp to work, but not the epson. The problem with the epson turned out to be the printer was in some kind of hung state -- indicated it was idle, but would not accept jobs. Power cycling it solved the problem. Discovered the problem because it would not eject the paper loaded in the manual sheet feeder.