Re: ptalChannelOpen failed

Cory Meisch <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:03:27 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.hpofficejet.devel
Organization Hewlett-Packard
Message-ID <1101247407.10286.56.camel@cmeischlnx3>
What version of hpijs are you running? Current versions of hpijs do not
support RH 8 or earlier.

Cory
hp linux printing team

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 15:43 +1100, Andrew Bergman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having issues with our HP Officejet D145 printer on Redhat 7.2 
> using HPOJ and LPD.
> 
> We are getting continuous printouts of a document containing only a ? or 
> two in the corner of the page, and cannot cancel it from the printer and 
> there is no print job in the lpd queue.
> 
> What makes me think it may be an issue with the print server side is 
> that I am getting the following message continuously in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Nov 19 15:11:55 phobos ptal-printd: ptal-printd(mlc:usb:0): 
> ptalChannelOpen failed!  Will delay and retry.
> 
> I have tried restarting lpd as well as restarting ptal-init with no 
> joy.  As far as everyone here is aware it was working fine and then got 
> into the state it is in now with no changes being made to the 
> configuration whatsoever.
> 
> Any help is appreciated
> 
> Andy
> 
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