My printer has suddenly stopped working and I'm not having any luck determining the cause...
I recently upgraded lprng from 3.6.2-2 to 3.6.12-6 and just made my first attempt to print after the upgrade. It fails silently and lpq just shows a message of the form Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson Stylus Color 400' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: removing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - ABORT at 12:05:41.092 Thinking it might be an incompatibility between the two versions of lprng, I reinstalled the old deb. Didn't work, but at least the older version provided a little information instead of failing silently: Status Information: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 connected to 'localhost' requesting printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] error 'LINK_TRANSFER_FAIL' sending str '^Blp' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed /var/log/syslog shows only that localhost is trying to connect to the printer. /var/log/lpr.log is completely empty. I've also double-checked that the parallel cable is secure and power-cycled the printer. Does this look more like a hardware or a software/configuration problem? Any suggestions on how to fix it? (And no, I don't normally use root unless I'm troubleshooting.) -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+
