Re: ptalChannelOpen failed

Andrew Bergman <andy-jSeWzh/[email protected]> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:20:20 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.hpofficejet.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Problem is resolved.

There was an application on another machine continually spewing a 
corrupt print job to the printer.  Once the queue was cleared and the 
driver restarted the printer was back to normal.

Thanks

Andy

Cory Meisch wrote:

>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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