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satimis

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 186

Fax printer fails to work

Hi folks,

The Fax_Printer fails to work after running "pacman -Syu".

On;
File --> Print --> Fax_Printer --> Print

No response.  The dialer does not popup for typing phone number

On browser
localhost:631/printers

Fax_Printer

Warning:

"recoverable: Network host 'locahost' is busy; wiill retry in 25 seconds...."

However no further response popup.

$ cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

DefaultEncryption IfRequested
LogLevel info
SystemGroup sys root
# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
  Allow localhost
  # Restrict access to the server...
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin>
  Allow localhost
  # Restrict access to the admin pages...
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Basic
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Allow localhost
  # Restrict access to the configuration files...
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Policy default>
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscriptio
 Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume
Job CUPS-Move-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Set-Printer-Attributes Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Curre
t-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startu
-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Add-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Ac
ept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs CUPS-Set-Default>
    AuthType Basic
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>

$ cat /etc/hosts

# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>   <hostname.domain.org>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       arch.satimis.com
192.168.0.52    arch.satimis.com

# End of file

The modem is on. 

$ sudo /etc/rc.d/cups restart

:: Stopping CUPS Daemon                                                  [DONE]
:: Starting CUPS Daemon                                                   [DONE]

Please advise where I have to check?  TIA

However both HP_Printer and PDF_Printer are working w/o problem.

Edit:

Performed further test as follows;

$ lsmod|grep lp

lp                     11972  0 
parport                38156  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp

$ dmesg|grep lp

On node 0 totalpages: 261983
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3620.49 BogoMIPS (lpj=6031192)
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

lp: driver loaded but no devices found

$ ls -l /dev/lp0

crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 2008-04-16 21:43 /dev/lp0

$ sudo pacman -Syu

Password: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      24.5K   33.5K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 extra is up to date
 community                331.3K  198.1K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: rsync-3.0.2-1  abs-2.0-3  

Total Download Size:    0.27 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y

:: Retrieving packages from core...
 abs-2.0-3-x86_64           7.4K   27.8K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 rsync-3.0.2-1-x86_64     266.2K  120.3K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
(1/2) installing rsync                              [#####################] 100%
==> ABS now uses rsync, instead of cvsup, to synchronize your tree.
==> Please note the new configuration in /etc/abs.conf
warning: /etc/abs/supfile.unstable saved as /etc/abs/supfile.unstable.pacsave
warning: /etc/abs/supfile.testing saved as /etc/abs/supfile.testing.pacsave
warning: /etc/abs/supfile.extra saved as /etc/abs/supfile.extra.pacsave
warning: /etc/abs/supfile.core saved as /etc/abs/supfile.core.pacsave
warning: /etc/abs/supfile.community saved as /etc/abs/supfile.community.pacsave
warning: /etc/abs/abs.conf saved as /etc/abs/abs.conf.pacsave
(2/2) upgrading abs                                 [#####################] 100%

Reboot Archlinux.  No warning in connection with udev was found on text scrolling.  Problem remains

I found "FS#9867 - /dev/lp0 not created by udev"
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9867

The case is similar to mine.  Problem happens after running update/upgrade.  Previously the Fax_Printer worked w/o problem.

Remark: I have WindowsXP running on this box (on another HD).  Sending and receiving faxes are w/o problem.

I think I have to downgrade "udev" if w/o a solution.  Please advise how to do it?  TIA

B.R.
satimis

Last edited by satimis (2008-04-16 14:58:13)