Printing stopped.

[Ted Ozolins]

ejbr at comcast.net wrote:

>On Thursday 18 March 2004 02:59 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, Mar 18, 2004, ejbr at comcast.net wrote:
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>>>Gentoo here.  Canon S900
>>>printer.  CUPS 1.1.20.  Turboprint 1.87.  Printer is attached
>>>to the local machine.  I printed a file and when I tried to print
>>>another, no go.  Jobs just sit in the queue.  Tried printing from root,
>>>but still nada.  Checked CUPS via the web interface, and everything
>>>looked OK:
>>>      
>>>
>>Have you looked in /var/log/cups to see if there's anything
>>interesting there?
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>>
>
>Nothing interesting as far as I can see.  Now, however, I see that CUPS has:
>
>Description: Canon_S900
>Location:
>Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
>"USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."
>Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
>
>There's nothing in the queue - why is the port busy?
>
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>
Look at your cups config file and see if you have 631 (port) listed more 
thatn once. If it is, the second instance will give you the "port busy" 
error.

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Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C