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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:15 AM

Hello everyone,

I have set up printing under gentoo as described at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml.

The howto works nice and I can print and everything is fine - however
sometimes my installed printer is stopped after booting (the printer
itself, not cupsd). So in this case I manually have to go to control
center, attached devices, printer, select my printer and click on "Start
printer" in its context menu. This is very annoying, especially because my
gentoo-box is also used by newbies, who can not remember this and always
contact me about it.

Can anyone enlighten me why this happens and is there a chance I can turn
this off? I want the printer to be always started.

Thanks in advance
Rainer Sinsch

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:16 AM

Rainer Sinsch enlightened us with:
> The howto works nice and I can print and everything is fine - however
> sometimes my installed printer is stopped after booting (the printer
> itself, not cupsd).

That's annoying. You could try reloading the module.

> So in this case I manually have to go to control center, attached
> devices, printer, select my printer and click on "Start printer" in
> its context menu. This is very annoying, especially because my
> gentoo-box is also used by newbies, who can not remember this and
> always contact me about it.

CUPS can be controlled by various means. This means you could write a
script that has the same result as performing the above actions. You
could run that at boot time, to make sure the printer is running fine.

It's a workaround and not a solution, I know, but perhaps it'll help
you out.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:16 AM

Rainer Sinsch wrote:
>
> sometimes my installed printer is stopped after booting (the printer
> itself, not cupsd). So in this case I manually have to go to control
> center, attached devices, printer, select my printer and click on "Start
> printer" in its context menu. This is very annoying, especially because my
> gentoo-box is also used by newbies, who can not remember this and always
> contact me about it.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me why this happens and is there a chance I can turn
> this off? I want the printer to be always started.

I have a USB printer that does the same.

The reason? Certain bright sparks like trying to print before turning
the printer on, resulting in the printer being stopped because it's
unavailable. What's worse is they try the print several times, forcing
me to clear the jobs before starting the printer. *grumble*

(Which gives me an idea:
USB Printer on => udev/hotplug => start Cups printer
Hmmm...)

Hth,
--
Ben M.

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:17 AM

Thanks for the comments and ideas guys,

I now do a "/usr/bin/enable myprinter" and "/usr/sbin/accept myprinter" at
kde-autostart, so everytime a user logs on the printer is reenabled. This
works fine and all my troubles are gone

Regards
Rainer

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:17 AM

> (Which gives me an idea:
> USB Printer on => udev/hotplug => start Cups printer
> Hmmm...)

This seems to be a great idea. If you find out how this can be implemented,
could you please post it here or somewhere else?

Thanks in advance
Rainer

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