Package: cups Version: 1.4.3-1 Severity: normal I have the same issue here with a Brother HL5140 connected to the parallel port.
/var/log/syslog contains: Jun 21 20:25:42 workhero kernel: [38406.189693] parport_pc 00:08: activated Jun 21 20:25:42 workhero kernel: [38406.189698] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI Jun 21 20:25:42 workhero kernel: [38406.189731] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] Jun 21 20:25:42 workhero kernel: [38406.214516] parport0: Printer, Brother HL-5140 series Jun 21 20:26:48 workhero kernel: [38472.379856] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). Jun 21 20:26:48 workhero kernel: [38472.386360] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver the second set of lines is printed when cups is started. If I open the cups admin interface at http://localhost:631/admin and try to add printers the following lines are printed to /var/log/cups/error_log: E [21/Jun/2010:20:27:34 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 11336 (beh) stopped with status 13! E [21/Jun/2010:20:27:34 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 11345 (parallel) stopped with status 13! E [21/Jun/2010:20:27:34 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 11342 (snmp) stopped with status 13! E [21/Jun/2010:20:27:34 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 11344 (socket) stopped with status 13! E [21/Jun/2010:20:27:34 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 11335 (scsi) stopped with status 13! Regards Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de, LC_CTYPE=de (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cups depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii bc 1.06.95-2 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal ii cups-client 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-common 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-3 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-3 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-3 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcups2 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupscgi1 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsimage2 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsmime1 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5 GCC support library ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libijs-0.35 0.35-7 IJS raster image transport protoco ii libkrb5-3 1.8.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.17-2.1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 1.1.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.24 library for handling paper charact ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1 PDF rendering library ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.7 OpenSLP libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-15 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii perl-modules 5.10.1-13 Core Perl modules ii poppler-utils 0.12.4-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities ii ssl-cert 1.0.25 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cups recommends: ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.5-1 printer drivers for CUPS ii foomatic-filters 4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil ii ghostscript-cups 8.71~dfsg2-3 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-pdf 2.5.0-15 PDF printer for CUPS ii cups-ppdc 1.4.3-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii foomatic-db 20090616-1 OpenPrinting printer support - dat ii foomatic-db-engine 4.0-20090509-2.1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro pn hplip <none> (no description available) pn smbclient <none> (no description available) ii udev 157-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd -- Jan Dittberner - Debian Developer GPG-key: 4096R/558FB8DD 2009-05-10 B2FF 1D95 CE8F 7A22 DF4C F09B A73E 0055 558F B8DD http://ddportfolio.debian.net/ - http://people.debian.org/~jandd/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org