[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#659736: cups: parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 consumes 100% cpu and never finishes

[Brian Potkin]

reassign 659736 cups-filters
thanks


On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 10:19:09 +0200, vasvir at iit.demokritos.gr wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I can confirm that it works for my setup.

Splendid!
 
> Let me restate my setup. The computer has no parallel ports and cups uses
> the parallel backend through a usb to parallel cable at /dev/usb/lp0,
>
> Something else:
> 
> As a stop gap measure we have switched to usb backend which worked for the
> first few jobs and then it stopped working. We had to unplug/plug to USB
> and resume printer to continue . I guess that this is a different bug and
> I don't know if it is fixed with the latest update and most importantly I
> don't even know which backend is recommended to use, but I thought I
> should mention it for posterity.
> 
> If you want I can retest and submit a new bug report for the usb backend
> If it is supposed to work for my setup.

That might be worthwhile when you have the time.

Regards,

Brian.