[nflug] Printer acting weird - cups problem?

[Darin Perusich]

Take a look at the cups logs in /var/log/cups, especially error_log, for
errors? I'd also take a look at the cups configuration, /etc/cups/ and
see if the update overwrite the configuration.

Joe wrote:
> Hi.  I print almost everything to file and then run it through my duplex
> printing emulator scripts.  These have worked fine forever (almost).
> 
> The script generates two sets of print jobs.  The first set prints all
> the odd pages of one or more files.  That still  works fine.  Then, it
> prints the even pages one job at a time.  Everything prints using
> hplip.  The printer is an HP Laserjet 1020 and it has worked fine from
> the start.
> 
> What's happening now is that it prints all of the odd pages and then it
> goes to print the first even pages job seems to spool it and then says
> it's done, but the printer does nothing and the job disappears from the
> print queue.
> 
> The only clue I have so far is in dmesg, but I don't know what it means:
> 
> [  303.623590] usblp0: removed
> [  304.304571] audit(1225833627.960:3): type=1503
> operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw"
> name="/dev/tty" pid=7764 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
> bigbird at sananda:~/pq$   
> 
> Is this some kind of permissions thing?
> Any ideas?  I think cups was updated in kubuntu hardy recently.
> 
> The only unusual thing I did recently was to downgrade my kernel from
> ...21 to ...19 when I was trying to get my winmodem working again (failed).
> 
> TIA
> 
> Joe
> 
> bigbird at sananda:/usr/sbin$ ls -l cup*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 2008-10-15 21:00 cupsaccept -> accept
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7020 2008-10-15 13:30 cupsaddsmb
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   6940 2008-10-15 13:30 cupsctl
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 382920 2008-10-15 13:30 cupsd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 2008-10-15 21:00 cupsdisable -> accept
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 2008-10-15 21:00 cupsenable -> accept
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  28968 2008-10-15 13:30 cupsfilter
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  37400 2008-01-24 06:55 cups-genppd.5.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  13870 2008-01-24 06:54 cups-genppdconfig.5.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  21260 2008-01-24 06:54 cups-genppdupdate.5.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 2008-10-15 21:00 cupsreject -> accept
> 
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Darin Perusich
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Cognigen Corporation
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