CUPS problem

[C M Reinehr]

On Thursday 27 September 2007 10:25, Vu Pham wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 07:38 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > I've never run into this.  What kind of printer is this, and how did
> > you set it up?  Did you try purging the CUPS printer profiles, and
> > recreating them?
>
> Lonni,
>
> Yes, I deleted some printers and re-created them. These are Zebra and HP
> printers, some wireless and some wired.
>
> I changed some configuration and now f1, f2 and f3 are printed by order
> f1, f3 and f2 :
> - f1 printed first
> - f2 reported error "Printer busy"
> - cups waits 30 seconds then print f3 ( not f2 ), exactly from what
> lpstat says "retry in 30 seconds".
> - cups wait some more seconds ( about 4-5 seconds ) to print f2.
>
> I will do some more changes in the config file and will report back.
>
> Anyone knows how to change the "wait for 30 seconds of LPD" ? I could
> not find the parameter to change this value.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu

Vu,

You can edit the ErrorPolicy in /etc/cups/printers.conf file to change this 
behavior (http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-printers-conf.html).

cmr

> > On 9/27/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > > We upgraded a server from RHEL4 to RHEL5. Everything is ok except
> > > printing. The problem is lpstat shows the printer is idle and enable
> > > and there are several jobs for that printers and they are never sent to
> > > the printer.
> > >
> > > More details: I print three files in a row, say f1, f2 and f3.
> > >
> > > tcpdump shows that f1 is sent and the printer is printing, then f2 is
> > > sent after f1 has been sent but before the printer finishes printing
> > > f1. The printer returns an error code Printer busy then continue
> > > printing.
> > >
> > > CUPS does show this error and lpstat shows " Network host
> > > '192.168.244.52' is busy, down, or unreachable; will retry in 30
> > > seconds..." then within 30 seconds, f2 is sent again and is printed
> > > sucessfully.
> > >
> > > The problem is f3 is never sent or printed. Then lpstat shows the
> > > printer is ready, and the job just sits on the server.
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone experiences this problem ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Vu
> > >
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