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

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:10:25PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 02:17 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > > 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?

> I had the same error message as the initial reporter:

> "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."

> and he did not post any error log.

I considered "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds" an error log,
since it was sent to stderr in the strace. :)  And your followup didn't
mention that you saw this same message, ok.

> > 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.

> I have found my problem.  In fact it was bug #396642.  Upgrading
> cupsys-driver-gutenprint to version 5.0.0-3 fixed it.  Without PPD files
> I am pretty sure that nobody using CUPS can print.

Great, glad to hear you've located your bug!

> This version has not reached etch yet.  Could you please make sure it
> makes it before the release ?

I've just bumped gutenprint's priority, so it should go in with the next
run.

Thanks,
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