On 6/4/20 9:06 am, Albretch Mueller wrote:
Last time I had a 'filter failed' it was because a program in the filter
chain was not installed or was crashing.
The filter is just your output piped to a program to convert it to
another format etc. Like pdf something your printer can print like
postscript.
Or things might have changed but I hope this helps
I got a:
_OFL="hwinfo_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)_hwinfo_printer.log"
hwinfo --printer --log "${_OFL}" 2>&1
17: USB 00.0: 10900 Printer
[Created at usb.122]
Unique ID: L0iK.+dt1oXx0UKE
Old Unique ID: vxkL.pGWWNSDBYN7
Parent ID: 2UT6.DFkaVl_rzX0
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.0
SysFS BusID: 1-3.2:1.0
Hardware Class: printer
HW Class List: printer, usb
Model: "Xerox Phaser 6125N"
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x0924 "Xerox"
Device: usb 0x3d61 "Phaser 6125N"
Revision: "1.00"
Serial ID: "LAL056826"
Driver: "usblp"
Driver Modules: "usblp"
Main Driver Module: "usblp"
Speed: 480 Mbps
Module Alias: "usb:v0924p3D61d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic07isc01ip02in00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: usblp is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe usblp"
Driver DB0: 2, usblp
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #13 (Hub)
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and after mostly following the steps outlined in:
https://rickvanderzwet.nl/trac/personal/wiki/XeroxPhaser6125N
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems
I can see the printer fine both while using cups going: localhost:631
and in libreoffice and okular, but the printer doesn't actually print.
The message that I see in cups is: State: stopped "Filter failed"
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A google search a less than 5 sinvoll hits which weren't really helpful.
WOuld you suggest a good guideline about how to troubleshoot printers?
lbrtchx
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