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Convergence

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Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 377

PSC 1610 stopped working after cups upgrade

I know that there are a million threads about cups upgrade problems.  However, after reading and participating in some of them, I am not sure that I am facing exactly the same issue as some of the other people. 

What I have:
a HP PSC 1610 all in one scanner/copier/printer.

# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:4811 Hewlett-Packard PSC 1600
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c404 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0781:b7b9 SanDisk Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

What I've done:
-blacklisted usblp
-made back up of old cupsd.conf
-copied copied cupsd.conf.default to cupsd.conf
-restarted cups (at this point, when i checked the cups interface, I got the same error many others got "Processing - "Waiting for printer to become available..."
-added my users to the lp group
-read the wiki, and a thread on the matter that said that I needed to create a UDEV rule, and so created:

# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-cups-usb.rules 
ATTR{idVendor}=="03f0", ATTR{idProduct}=="4811", MODE:="0660", GROUP:="lp"

Now:

# ls -l /dev/bus/usb/003/003 
crw-rw----+ 1 root lp 189, 258 2009-10-27 20:40 /dev/bus/usb/003/003

Which I believe means my permissions are correct.  Cups web interface still gives me the same error.

Note:  I also tried a slightly different rule that I found here:  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82489
which uses 0664 instead of 0660, and has something like "libsane matched" at the end of it.  still I get the same result.

I hate downgrading any package, but if I can't get this resolved soon, I'll end up doing that.

Anyway, thanks in advance.

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grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: PSC 1610 stopped working after cups upgrade

There should be some errors reported in /var/log/cups/error_log. What are they?

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gborzi

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From: Sicilia

Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 102

Re: PSC 1610 stopped working after cups upgrade

@Convergence
I've had similar problems and searched the forums for a solution. But my problem, and perhaps your, was different from those discussed here. The problem was that I was using epiphany as my default browser, and it is unable to properly show cups web interface. Switched to firefox and all went well. Midori also has some problems with cups web interface, but more or less it works.

Hope it helps.

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ddamnmess

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Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 3

Re: PSC 1610 stopped working after cups upgrade

I (still) have the same problem as Convergence and also tried everything he did - nothing works (and I am already using Firefox to visit CUPS' web interface), see also here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82489 , all the way down.

Just now I tried to print something, "waiting for printer blahblah" shows, but /var/log/cups/error_log is empty.
I have really no clue what to do... .