CUPS in Ubuntu

[Rony]

Hi,

CUPS in Ubuntu (10.04 to 12.04) is quite a nuisance as it keeps dying
and currently I am working around it by adding a line to restart the
cups service in rc.local as well as a cron job to do the same every half
an hour. This is not right but atleast gets things printed. These are
basic things that should work out of the box.

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Rony.
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[Arun Khan]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Rony <gnuli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> CUPS in Ubuntu (10.04 to 12.04) is quite a nuisance as it keeps dying and
> currently I am working around it by adding a line to restart the cups
> service in rc.local as well as a cron job to do the same every half an hour.
> This is not right but atleast gets things printed. These are basic things
> that should work out of the box.

My sister's desktop is has Kubuntu 12.04.1. This system has a printer
(shared on the LAN); no issues with CUPS printing (local+remote).

Any helpful entries in log files in the /var/log/cups directory?

Try re-installing the package.

-- Arun Khan

[J T Dsouza]

Probable cause: The usb must be powering down, which will cause constantly connected stuff to bomb.

[Arun Khan]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM, J T Dsouza <jtd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Probable cause: The usb must be powering down, which will cause constantly
> connected stuff to bomb.
>

Still, cups should not bomb, the printer may disappear/disabled.

[Rony]

This is happening across different machines, one at my place and 2 at
different clients' places, all sharing the printer on LAN. Haven't
checked the logs.

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Regards,

Rony.
http://ronybill.blogspot.com/

[Rony]

On Thursday 24 January 2013 12:00 PM, J T Dsouza wrote:

Probable cause: The usb must be powering down, which will cause constantly connected stuff to bomb.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Rony <gnuli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> CUPS in Ubuntu (10.04 to 12.04) is quite a nuisance as it keeps dying and
> currently I am working around it by adding a line to restart the cups
> service in rc.local as well as a cron job to do the same every half an hour.
> This is not right but atleast gets things printed. These are basic things
> that should work out of the box.

This is unique to Ubuntu. I will look it up if there is some power setting for this.

[Rony]

The printer does disappear sometimes.