Printing stopped.

[ejbr@comcast.net]

On Thursday 18 March 2004 06:56 pm, Ted Ozolins wrote:

> >
> >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?
>
> 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.

I found the culprit - though I don't get why it interfered with printing.  
I'll skip the rigamarole except to say that it took a couple of (cough, 
cough) reboots to discover that the problem is one 3-page file in textmaker - 
only the first two pages print, then nothing else prints.   I avoid that file 
and everything prints now.  Anyone with any idea why a .tmd file would mess 
up CUPS?

Oh, well - lost a file but saved me a CD session and an unbillable trek to the 
nearest print shop.  Thanks to all who tried to help.

-- 
Ed Jabbour