Bug 624479 - Cups complains about paper jam, out of paper, no toner. But prints anyway.
Summary: Cups complains about paper jam, out of paper, no toner. But prints anyway.
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cups
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-16 15:12 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-10-04 14:45:25 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
error_out after printing a few files as requested (297.66 KB, text/plain)
2010-08-17 15:40 UTC, Horst H. von Brand
no flags Details
The resulting troubleshoot.txt file after printing the test page OK (104.98 KB, text/plain)
2010-08-17 17:37 UTC, Horst H. von Brand
no flags Details
The resulting troubleshoot.txt file after printing the test page and another file OK (182.59 KB, text/plain)
2010-10-04 14:37 UTC, Horst H. von Brand
no flags Details

Description Horst H. von Brand 2010-08-16 15:12:12 UTC
Description of problem:
I've got a HP LaserJet M1522nf MFP connected via the network. The URI is 
dnssd://HP%20LaserJet%20M1522nf%20MFP%20(33A743)._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
There is nothing wrong with the printer, but CUPS complains about media jam and out of paper and no toner. Yet lpq says it is active and printing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.4.4-8.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Seems to happen each time I send something to the printer since I updated to this CUPS (on August 14, 2010).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. lpr somefile.pdf
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Error windows:
- Media jam
- Out of paper
- Out of toner

lpq says "active and printing" (my job, even).

System->Administration->Printing shows the printer with an '!' in a yellow triangle

Expected results:
No noise...

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jiri Popelka 2010-08-17 11:58:10 UTC
Would it be possible to attach output from Printing troubleshooter ?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging#Printing_troubleshooter

Comment 2 Horst H. von Brand 2010-08-17 15:40:05 UTC
Created attachment 439141 [details]
error_out after printing a few files as requested

I followed the steps for getting printing debug info.

One comment: The /varLog/cups/error_log file isn't readable by "normal accounts", it should be documented how to get at it.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2010-08-17 15:58:49 UTC
Horst: the troubleshooter would have done that for you, as well as including other useful information...

Comment 4 Horst H. von Brand 2010-08-17 17:37:55 UTC
Created attachment 439175 [details]
The resulting troubleshoot.txt file after printing the test page OK

The printer shows with a warning in System->Administration->Printing. Clicking on the printer icon, its toner level icon says there is nearly 100% left (true, was changed recently), but Status Messages says:

  Printer 'dcsc' has no toner left
  Printer 'dcsc': 'Door open'

Both are nonsense. There is new toner, the printer has no "door", and it prints without any trouble.

Comment 5 Horst H. von Brand 2010-08-17 21:19:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Horst: the troubleshooter would have done that for you, as well as including
> other useful information...

Yep, found out too late (see comment 4 ;-). But the "Manual troubleshooting" section doesn't warn about that (and I remember strange problems with BZ when a file I tried to attach wasn't readable, so...)

Thanks for the handholding!

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2010-08-23 10:32:52 UTC
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -media-low-report',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -media-empty-warning',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -toner-low-report',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: +toner-empty-warning',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: +door-open-report',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -media-jam-warning',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -input-tray-missing-warning',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -output-tray-missing-warning',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -marker-supply-missing-warning',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -output-area-almost-full-report',
D [17/Aug/2010:13:31:25 -0400] [Job 143] STATE: -output-area-full-warning',

This is the printer's response to the hrPrinterDetectedErrorState SNMP request (see backend/snmp-supplies.c).

If it's incorrect, perhaps CUPS needs to have a quirk for it (see CUPS STR #3551).

Comment 7 Horst H. von Brand 2010-09-30 22:22:33 UTC
Seems to have gone away in cups-1.4.4-10.fc15.x86_64

Comment 8 Tim Waugh 2010-10-01 08:26:07 UTC
Could you run the troubleshooter again and look for that same snippet (lots of "STATE: +/-" lines) to compare?  I'm not aware of anything that's likely to have changed this.

Comment 9 Horst H. von Brand 2010-10-04 14:37:24 UTC
Created attachment 451415 [details]
The resulting troubleshoot.txt file after printing the test page and another file OK

No complaints this time, all STATE: lines (except for "connecting to device") start '-'

Whatever the problem was it went away in the meantime.

cups-1.4.4-11.fc15.x86_64

Comment 10 Tim Waugh 2010-10-04 14:45:25 UTC
OK.  Thanks for re-testing.  I think the original issue was due to an incorrect/unexpected SNMP response given by the printer.


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