Bug 829638 - After updating to cups-1.5.3-2.fc17, sometimes my USB printer stops working
Summary: After updating to cups-1.5.3-2.fc17, sometimes my USB printer stops working
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cups
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-07 07:21 UTC by Joachim Backes
Modified: 2012-08-20 13:12 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-11 12:13:58 UTC
Type: Bug
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troubleshoot.txt (73.19 KB, text/plain)
2012-06-07 10:00 UTC, Joachim Backes
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Description Joachim Backes 2012-06-07 07:21:08 UTC
Description of problem:
I updated cups-1.5.2-12.fc17.x86_64 and cups-libs-1.5.2-12.fc17.x86_64 to cups-
1.5.3-2.fc17 and cups-libs-1.5.3-2.fc17 from updates testing repo. Initially it seems to work. But sometimes the printer stops working, and I see some messages in /var/log/cups/error_log:

W [07/Jun/2012:08:44:24 +0200] failed to find device: cups-ML-1660
W [07/Jun/2012:08:44:24 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [07/Jun/2012:08:56:09 +0200] failed to find device: cups-ML-1660
W [07/Jun/2012:08:56:09 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [07/Jun/2012:08:56:51 +0200] failed to find device: cups-ML-1660
W [07/Jun/2012:08:56:51 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF

Restarting cups does not help - I have to reboot.

Nothing to see in /var/log/messages.

The printer cups-ML-1660 is a Samsung ml-1660 USB printer, and cups-PDF is a PDF-printer installed by cups-pdf-2.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.5.3-2.fc17
cups-libs-1.5.3-2.fc17


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Comment 1 Jiri Popelka 2012-06-07 09:38:31 UTC
The "failed to find device" comes from the colord support part of cups and I think it's unrelated to your problem.

You wrote that it's USB printer and cups-1.5.3 has improved USB backend based on libusb-1 so there could be some relation.

When the USB printer stops working are you still able to print to the PDF-printer ?

Once it stops working again please try print something via the printing troubleshooter and attach the output here.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging#Printing_troubleshooter

Comment 2 Joachim Backes 2012-06-07 10:00:04 UTC
Created attachment 590146 [details]
troubleshoot.txt

(In reply to comment #1)
> The "failed to find device" comes from the colord support part of cups and I
> think it's unrelated to your problem.
> 
> You wrote that it's USB printer and cups-1.5.3 has improved USB backend
> based on libusb-1 so there could be some relation.
> 
> When the USB printer stops working are you still able to print to the
> PDF-printer ?
> 

NO!

> Once it stops working again please try print something via the printing
> troubleshooter and attach the output here.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging#Printing_troubleshooter

See attachment!

Comment 3 Jiri Popelka 2012-06-07 10:40:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> See attachment!

It looks good to me.

So there was nothing printed out ?
And it's not printing anymore until you reboot ?

Comment 4 Joachim Backes 2012-06-07 11:15:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > See attachment!
> 
> It looks good to me.
> 
> So there was nothing printed out ?
> And it's not printing anymore until you reboot ?

After rebooting, I can print once. But if I try to print for a second time, then 2 standard messages appear at the bottom of the gnome3 desktop:

1. printing on ml-1660 ...
2. printing completed ...

But nothing is printed. If I print again something, then the previously missing printout is printed, but not the actually is printed. And so on: I short words, I have to print each time twice for getting the first output of the 2 print jobs.

No such behaviour with 

 cups              x86_64         1:1.5.2-12.fc17
 cups-libs         x86_64         1:1.5.2-12.fc17

Comment 5 Joachim Backes 2012-08-11 12:13:58 UTC
seems to be solved with

cups-1.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64
cups-libs-1.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64
cups-libs-1.5.4-1.fc17.i686

Comment 6 Jeff lats 2012-08-19 09:09:31 UTC
I have the problem and have following installed

cups-1.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64
cups-libs-1.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64
cups-libs-1.5.4-1.fc17.i686

Comment 7 Jeff lats 2012-08-19 09:14:10 UTC
My problem seems a little different.  My file prints then stops half way and then won't restart printing.

Comment 8 Jiri Popelka 2012-08-20 09:37:22 UTC
Jeff, fill a new bug report and attach an output from printing troubleshooter:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging#Printing_troubleshooter

Do you see the problem when you downgrade back to 1.4.2 with:
yum downgrade 'cups*'
?

Comment 9 Jeff lats 2012-08-20 13:12:24 UTC
I have changed my printer defintion to be Canon iP3500 which has not been previously available and the printer now works.


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