Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 42663
Printing on HP LJ 1100 broken
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:27 EDT
Printint to an HP Laserjet 1100 is broken in 7.1 (was fine in 7.0). Certain postscript files will cause the printfilter to crash and will block the queue (until they are removed by hand). Here this will happen about once/twice a day in our secretary and hence makes printing a pain. The problem is reprodicible and I will a attatch a postscript file which will block the printing system. The same file prints fine on other printers (tested on HP Laserjet 4000).
Created attachment 19853 [details] ps file
Still broken in RC2. It will print some pages and then stop at random. The light is blinking forever but no more pages come out of the printer. If I kill the job and send the job again begining with the page where it previously stopped, I get a single page with ------------------------------- @PJL SET MANUALFEED=OFF @PJL SET MEDIATYPE=NORMAL @PJL SET PRINTQUALITY=NORMAL -------------------------------- and printing will resume and stop again after a random page.
Bug #50401 looks like a duplicate, and has some more information in it.
*** Bug 50401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 55804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Do the packages at <ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/errata-candidate/> help?
Yep. With these packages it works fine.
Maybe on version 7.2, but not on version 7.1. I ran up2date after receiving the latest patch today: [RHBA-2001:174-11] Updated printing packages available to fix minor bugs This bug started on 7.1 (5/2001). I am still running version 7.1 Now instead of printing five of seven pages and dying, it prints only three pages of the same report and dies. I have to clear the "Queue" using lprm - <login name>. So something has changed, but it does not fix version 7.1. Sorry.
tajeeves@att.net: this bug was filed against 7.2. Please see bug #50401 for the similar problem observed on 7.1. For 7.2 though, this is now fixed by RHBA-2001:174.
Unfortunately the problem is still not completely resolved. It works *much* better now, but there are still some files where it hangs. For example, I have a ps files (created with latex from dvi), where it would print one page and then stop. The printer light will keep blinking, but no further pages come out of the printer. lpq says: Printer: lp@tomcat Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 1871 active Unspooler: pid 1872 active Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'closed *main::KID3' at 09:36:23.503 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time 1 susanne@tomcat+870 A 870 Skriptum.ps 88632 09:36:16 I will mail the ps file to you.
(printer is directly connected to parallel port) Can you try one of the other drivers please? I'd like to try to eliminate kernel problems.
This is very strange: I just tested all three driveres (omni,stp,ljet4) and it printed the document I sent you with all three drivers (without problems)!? I have no clue what is going on.
*shrug* I'll close this as WORKSFORME for now. Please re-open if you see the problem again.
Unfortunately the problem is still present. I found out that the document will eventually print correctly. In fact, it will print the first two pages, then the light will flash for about 20min (with no output) and then suddenly another two or three pages will come out of the printer. Then the light will flash agian for 20min, etc... I tried kernel-2.4.18-0.1 as well, but same result. I don't think it is a parport problem. Moreover, if I use cups everything works fine! Here is a ps snapshot: [root@tomcat root]# ps xauww|grep ^lp lp 926 0.0 0.3 2580 1000 ? S 14:53 0:00 lpd Waiting lp 1577 0.0 0.4 2580 1212 ? S 14:59 0:00 lpd (Server) 'lp' lp 1578 0.0 0.4 2596 1248 ? S 14:59 0:00 lpd (Worker - Print) 'lp' lp 1579 0.0 0.3 1984 908 ? S 14:59 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper -Asusanne@tomcat+576 -CA -D2002-03-10-14:59:14.041 -Ff -Htomcat.home -J(STDIN) -N(STDIN) -Plp -Qlp -a/var/spool/lpd/lp/lp.acct -b253326 -d/var/spool/lpd/lp -edfA576tomcat.home -f(STDIN) -htomcat.home -j576 -kcfA576tomcat.home -l66 -nsusanne -sstatus -t2002-03-10-14:59:14.000 -w80 -x0 -y0 /var/spool/lpd/lp/lp.acct lp 1589 0.0 0.3 1984 912 ? S 14:59 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/share/printconf/util/mf_postscript_wrapper --mfomatic ljet4-62816.foo lp 1590 0.0 0.7 3312 2036 ? S 14:59 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/lpdomatic --lprng ljet4-62816.foo lp 1591 0.0 0.7 3320 2036 ? S 14:59 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/lpdomatic --lprng ljet4-62816.foo lp 1592 0.1 0.7 3316 2044 ? S 14:59 0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/lpdomatic --lprng ljet4-62816.foo lp 1593 0.0 0.3 1964 860 ? S 14:59 0:00 sh -c foomatic-gswrapper -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=- - | perl -e "while (\$line = <>) { my \$b = \"\"; \$match |= ( \$line =~ s/\x1b&l\d+A/\$&\$b/ ); \$line =~ s/\x1b&l0H/\$b/g; print \$line }" lp 1594 0.0 0.3 1964 868 ? S 14:59 0:00 sh -c gs '-dBATCH' '-dSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ljet4' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '-' 3>&1 1>&2 lp 1595 0.0 0.4 2592 1140 ? S 14:59 0:00 perl -e while ($line = <>) { my $b = ""; $match |= ( $line =~ s/\x1b&l\d+A/$&$b/ ); $line =~ s/\x1b&l0H/$b/g; print $line } lp 1596 0.3 3.6 14392 9432 ? S 14:59 0:03 gs -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3 - [root@tomcat root]# ls -l /dev/fd/3 ls: /dev/fd/3: No such file or directory [root@tomcat root]# ls -l /dev/fd/ total 0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar 10 15:17 0 -> /dev/pts/1 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar 10 15:17 1 -> /dev/pts/1 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar 10 15:17 2 -> /dev/pts/1 lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Mar 10 15:17 3 -> /proc/1781/fd
I just connected the printer to my laptop which runs beta2. And it works just fine (using the gimp driver as suggested by printconf). I will upgrade the other box and try again later.
Okay. Perhaps this is fixed in the new packages then, whatever the problem was. Let me know the result of the other test.
It seems to work fine now. Closing bug.