[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#458581: cannot print to usb printer anymore

[Jürgen Richtsfeld]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.3.5-1
Severity: normal

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I don't use the printer very often so I can't tell when it worked the last 
time (but it did exactly in the described configuration). I have a Kyocera 
FS-1000 printer connected via a USB to parallel adapter. Previously I used 
some HP laserjet PCL driver, but due to the current problems, i switched to 
the gutenprint driver which should support my printer.

After noticing that the printer doesn't work anymore, I removed it and tried 
the cups auto detection (everthing via the cups webgui). It didn't report 
anything. From the output below you can see that the usb backend of cups does 
report the printer. In a dpkg-reconfigure cupsys the usb backend is switched 
on (parallel too, only scsi and serial are off).

Then I manually added the printer to cups (via webgui). I wasn't provided to 
select the local usb port, but on the next page I set the port to 
usb://Kyocera/FS-1000. With this configuration I tried the HPLJ PCL 4 and the 
gutenprint driver. Both result in the status "Printing page 1, 6%" (sometimes 
22%, value differs depending on the used driver). Then the usb process from 
the cupsys backend consumes all my CPU unitl I abort the print job. The 
printer status then doesn't change until I stop and start it.

I already switched cups logging to debug level, but I didn't find anything 
that gives me a hint. dmesg output also doesn't return anything suspicious.

See some output
# lpinfo -v
network socket
network http
network ipp
network lpd
network smb

notice that usb is missing (no idea why, but it's also not available in the 
webgui when adding a new printer)

#lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible 
Power Supply
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 04a9:2630 Canon, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 012: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel 
Port
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 
USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0424:2504 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

here you can see my usb to parallel adapter which already worked.


#/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
direct usb://Kyocera/FS-1000 "Kyocera FS-1000" "Kyocera FS-1000 USB 
#1" "ID:FS-1000;MFG:Kyocera;CMD:PCLXL,PCL5E,PJL;MDL:FS-1000;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Kyocera 
FS-1000;CID:HP Laserjet 2100;"
direct usb://Canon/MP700 "Canon MP700" "Canon MP700 USB 
#2" "MFG:Canon;CMD:BJL,BJRaster3,BSCC,TXT01;MDL:MP700;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon 
MP700;VER:1.01;STA:10;as"

please ignore the 2nd printer, switching it off doesn't help anything.

# lsmod |grep usb
usblp                  13568  0



jürgen


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.23-2-1

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        mi.mirror.garr.it 
  500 unstable        ftp.tuke.sk 
  500 unstable        ftp.de.debian.org 
  500 unstable        ftp.at.debian.org 
  500 unstable        debian.inode.at 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                             (Version) | Installed
=============================================-+-================
adduser                                       | 3.105
cupsys-common                                 | 1.3.5-1
debconf                           (>= 1.2.9)  | 1.5.17
 OR debconf-2.0                               | 
ghostscript                                   | 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3
 OR gs-esp                                    | 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1         (>= 0.6.13) | 0.6.21-2
libc6                              (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-5
libcupsimage2                      (>= 1.3.0) | 1.3.5-1
libcupsys2                         (>= 1.3.4) | 1.3.5-1
libdbus-1-3                        (>= 1.1.1) | 1.1.2-1
libgnutls13                      (>= 2.0.4-0) | 2.0.4-1
libkrb53                      (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) | 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2
libldap2                        (>= 2.1.17-1) | 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5
libpam0g                        (>= 0.99.7.1) | 0.99.7.1-5
libpaper1                                     | 1.1.23
libslp1                                       | 1.2.1-6.2
lsb-base                               (>= 3) | 3.1-24
perl-modules                                  | 5.8.8-12
poppler-utils                                 | 
 OR xpdf-utils                                | 3.02-1.3
procps                                        | 1:3.2.7-5
ssl-cert                          (>= 1.0.11) | 1.0.14