Re: Printer Stopped Working
Micros50 <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:51 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 02/10/2010 12:38 PM, Micros50 wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a Hewlett Packard B209 printer connected via wireless ethernet to > > my LAN. For the past several months everything was working fine. At > > l;east 3 different computers running Fedora 11 and 12 had no problems > > seeing the networked printer and printing to it. > > > > Then all of a sudden everything went kaputz. I think it happened after a > > recent routine upgrade via YUM. All of a sudden none of my computers can > > access the printer. It seems to show up as a valid networked printer > > but, I cannot get it to print. If I send a document to the printer I get > > the following message. > > > > "/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed" > > > > I cannot even access any administrative functions top pause or restart > > the printer, nor can I print a test page. I disabled my firewall and > > SELinux but unto no avail. It just sits there dumb, like it's there but > > not there. Up to a couple days ago it was working flawlessly. > > > > I attached a copy of my cupsd.conf file. If any further diagnostics are > > needed I can furnish those as well. > > > > Any and all help appreciated. Thanks in advance... > > First, try to ping your printer, both by name and by IP address. If > you can ping via IP but not name, then you may be affected by: > > There was an update to both F11 and F12 that can affect you if you are > running BIND (named) on your machine. It has to do with the dnssec-conf > RPM. Do an "rpm -q dnssec-conf". If you get a result that shows either > > 1.21-3.fc11 > 1.21-7.fc12 > > then "yum downgrade dnssec-conf" and then "service named restart". > Details are here: > Okay... I can ping the printer via it's ip address. I cannot ping by name and, I am not running bind nor is dnssec-conf installed. This problem is also network wide because none of my machines can print anything anymore. I still get the message "paused /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed" And CUPS administration won't let me unpause the printer nor carry out any administrative function. Ciao John _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: [email protected] Subject: unsubscribe