[nflug] Printer acting weird - cups problem?

[Joe]

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