[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#394934: cupsys: 1.2.3 and later => Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...

[Steve Langasek]

> Hi,

> I have the same problem: cups does not work any longer with my Epson C82
> USB printer.  Here is what I see in /var/log/cups/error_log:

Er, how can you claim you have the same problem when your logs are totally
different?

> E [01/Nov/2006:09:11:54 +0100] PID 5051 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster) crashed on signal 9!
> E [01/Nov/2006:09:11:54 +0100] PID 5052 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.0) crashed on signal 9!
> E [01/Nov/2006:09:11:54 +0100] PID 5053 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb) crashed on signal 9!

> I will raise the severity of this bug because not being able to printer
> to a USB printer deserves a "grave" severity IMHO.

signal 9 is SIGKILL.  What is killing these processes?  I would be surprised
if cupsys itself is calling kill -9 on them.

I don't use cups myself so I haven't tested this, but I think there are a
few other people out there using cups with usb printers, so if this was
really a bug in the package I would have expected it to be reported before
now.

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