FS#18167 - [cups] 1.4.2 and Brother HL-1440: "Unable to write 8192 bytes to printer!"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sam H (samjh) - Friday, 05 February 2010, 01:00 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 14 August 2010, 10:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

I am receiving intermittent (happens around 50% of the time) errors when trying to print using my Brother HL-1440 USB laser printer. This is a working printer with proper configuration. CUPS was upgraded on 30 Jan 2010, and it worked afterwards until today. The printer is not connected over a network. It is a simple USB connection.

Basically, without any apparent cause, the CUPS spooler will return "Unable to write 8192 bytes to printer!". Printing sources vary between Firefox to PS and PDF documents stored locally.

Additional info:
* package version(s): CUPS and libcups 1.4.2-3
* config and/or log files etc.

In the log file, the ACL errors would not be relevant, as the printer was working fine on those days. It's only today (5 Feb 2010) that this problem started occurring.
   error_log (2.7 KiB)
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 14 August 2010, 10:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  patch applied in 1.4.4-3
Comment by olivier (0livier) - Friday, 05 February 2010, 10:52 GMT
I can confirm that issue, with a MP510 and the turboprint driver. It started to happen since the move from cups 1.3 to 1.4.

Comment by Miroslaw Czachor (forest76) - Saturday, 06 February 2010, 18:22 GMT
Conform that bug on Samsung 2010 with splix (and other driver too). On old cups 1.3 all work perfecct.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 25 March 2010, 09:00 GMT
Google returns lots of hits when searching for your error.log entry. Please search for a solution.
Comment by olivier (0livier) - Sunday, 04 April 2010, 18:06 GMT
Yep. you're right. And guess what ? at the time of posting, nobody seemed to have any solution. Believe me, I looked for it.
Comment by olivier (0livier) - Sunday, 04 April 2010, 18:15 GMT
I just searched for a solution and was still unable to find anything useful. It's annoying.

The issue is still occuring with the current cups version (1.4.3-1)
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 05 April 2010, 13:17 GMT
Then it's time to contact upstream developers and try to find a solution. I'm not the man to fix an upstream bug.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 10 April 2010, 10:35 GMT
If you don't file and post an upstream bug we can follow I will soon close this one.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 02 May 2010, 12:24 GMT
try if this could be a workaround for you: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-April/012867.html
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 20:58 GMT
Is it solved? If not ask splix/cups developers and/or file an upstream issue.
Comment by Michael Laß (Bevan) - Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 19:33 GMT
I can confirm this problem with a Canon MP630 and Cups 1.4.3. It is not solved yet. I will try to file an upstream bug report.
Comment by Michael Laß (Bevan) - Wednesday, 02 June 2010, 21:14 GMT
I created a bug report upstream: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3595
Please help out with any useful information you have.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 02 June 2010, 21:58 GMT
CC'ed
Comment by Michael Laß (Bevan) - Saturday, 14 August 2010, 08:32 GMT
For me the problem now has been fixed upstream in SVN (see upstream bugreport).

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