Re: Printer Stopped Working

Micros50 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.install
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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