Ubuntu :: Deskjet 940c Wouldn't Print - Errors With Communication And The Initial Device?
Apr 19, 2011
[i use Ubuntu linux 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx] i tried to print a document and i got the following message from the "document print status (my jobs)": "There was a problem processing document 'take it easy' (job 400)" i tried to print other things but i got the same error. after any print request i sent the printer asked me to release the paper it took, and when i release it, it printed this:"Unable to open the initial device, quitting." i have "HP Device Manager" installed on my computer, and lately i tried to install a wireless printer (officejet 4500 g510n-z) through it, and it failed because the connection between the printer and my computer disconnected before the terminal finished the installation. i didn't try to print with the deskjet right after it but now when i try- it doesn't work, so it might have something to do with my current problem... also when i looked at the HP Device Manager i saw the deskjet printer icon marked with X so i used this program's option "Setup Device" and the X mark disappeared.. and it still doesn't work.
What is my problem? I have a page (one page - text an graphic) to print. When I sent it to my printer it prints OK. When I sent it agian, the output is totally garbled. When I sent it again (a third time) it is OK. Sent it again (4th time) it is garbled. Sent it again ... you get the picture ;-). Alternating good and bad pages.
What is my setup? I run Fedora 14 with Cups 1.4.6. The printer is a HP Deskjet 940C. It is connected to a linksys wireless print server. It is configured in CUPS to use ipp printing. The driver I use in Cups is 'CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.6 Simplified (color, 2-sided printing)'.
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my computer. Everything works except for my HP Deskjet D2660 printer. The printer is recognized, but it will not print. HP-check shows no errors or warnings. The printer works fine on another computer with Ubuntu 9.10
My HP Deskjet D-2660 will not print. I can print to file but not the printer. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and have no other problems. I have installed hpip and hpijs form HP and cups was made available via and upgrade. I have a lot of data from var/log/cups/error_log but don't know what it is supposed to say.
I can print to file and everything else I check seems to say that all is right. Is there any glaring faults that I should look for?? As I stated on the other post I get a message that the print job has been sent to the printer and then another message stating that the print job has completed. In system/administration/printing, the printer shows up properly and has a green check mark on it. Connected to localhost shows at the bottom of the little window. Under /printer it shows shared and enabled Then under printer/properties, it shows as the HP Deskjet D2600 series the location is given as john-desktop It defines the Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_D2600_series?serial=CN9ANDF0ZT05C9 shows the Make and Model HP Deskjet d2600 Series hpijs,.. printer state: idle
Across the bottom it theoretically allows you to print a test page or clean the print heads. (won't print) On the printing-local host small page that opens under system/administration/printing there is no group under that heading only new group or new group from selection. I never named a group since I am the only user.
I have shut the printer down and disconnected the USB and rebooted. Then connect the power and plug in the USB cable I get all the same answers nothing appears to change. Here is some of the var/log/cups/error_log file. It does this over and over every minute same thing. The print que is empty from both administration and applications.
I'm an happy user of 11.2 but I've a weird and very annoying problem with my old but still good for me hp 710c Printer.
I should say that I have this problem on with 11.2 because printer runs well either on windows or with other linux distro.
the problem is that when I try to print anything I get: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed
I've found an other thread (11.2 - Cups ends /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed - openSUSE Forums) regarding the same problem but with 11.2 milestone 1 and the solutions seemed to be to downgrade to an older cups and ghostscript version.
I have two ethernet card on my computer, I want to make a TCP or UDP communication between these two cards, so I disable loopback: #ifconfig lo down. but with out loopback I can't even ping an eth from another one. how should I do? I want traffic to really pass eth cards.
I have installed 10.04 on several machines as well as imbedded inside VISTA. All of these installs work fine except the one on my HP Pavillion dv9000. The synaptics device on these machines is very touchy in all operating systems, but caused a strange issue in ubuntu 10.10. While connected to the internet and working fine I barely touched the pad and everything quit. I rebooted and found no way to reconnect to the internet. On the panel there was a little icon about the connection manager. Hovering over this icon gave the message "Connection Manager daemon not working". The usual tab to "enable networking" was dim and could not be activated.
I searched for several hours and found no reference regarding this daemon. Is there a source of the op sys names for such daemons and what sort of terminal command would I use to restart it if I knew what it was called? I ended up scrubbing the partition and reinstalling. Even the recovery process would not get the daemon to restart.
I'm putting a server together and have run into a boot up problem. (I thought about putting this in the server forum, but it might be a more generic problem that others have seen and know how to rectify.) The install seems to have gone just fine. I have the /boot partition on an internal IDE drive. The rest of that drive and another are mirrored in a Raid0 configuration (using the Linux software to do that) for data storage. The swap partition is a part of the Raid5 SCSI array that also has the / (root) partition on it.
After installation it would not finish the booting process. I suspected that GRUB didn't like all the Raid arrays and such, but it seems to be fine. I can say that because the machine will boot into rescue mode with the GUI splash screen and I have access to the whole directory tree. I have already searched on-line and following prudent advice, ran the yum update while in the chroot /mnt/sysimage mode. That only took overnight to download and most of this morning to complete. Still no dice. Used vim to delete the rhgb quiet commands in the grub.conf file so I could see where the kernel seems to be hanging.
So right after the "Creating initial device nodes" is a line about my generic PS2 wheel mouse. So I tried a USB mouse. Got more output so tried swapping out to a USB keyboard. Got a little further with more information about input devices, but still stops. Also, I tried a PCI video card just to make sure the onboard video wasn't the problem - no change. So, if someone in the Fedora community knows what loads up or is configured right after the mouse and keyboard, I might be able to figure out what's causing the computer to hang during the boot process.
if I want to print a regular document from the main tray, no problem. If I want to print an 8x11 photo from the main tray. slight problem (might be ink related, still researching that side). But if I want to print a 4x6 or a 5x7 from Linux massive problem Printer: HP Photosmart D5460. Will not print from the Gimp at all, I get the following when I try to print a photo using the Gimp: A page from the main tray with text similar to this:
"****Unable to open the initial device, quitting"
Actually for the last several years under OpenSuSE I have never been able to print a photo from the Gimp. It always prints some text error then quits OR will print the error at the top of every sheet in the tray until the printer either is manually unplugged / turned off OR it runs out of paper. The printer I have is listed as working perfectly according to Open Printing dot org. But none of my applications seem to be able to get the printer tray to operate for the smaller photos. Currently I have to copy the images to a card in the printer then print from the card. Unacceptable if you ask me.[URL]... what photo capable printer out there actually works 100% with OpenSuSE? And I mean I can access all the trays from all the applications I could possibly use, as well as monitor ink levels, perform maintenance and so forth.
I recently upgraded from Lucid to Maverick, which went fairly smooth. Then I upped my RAM with some new memory sticks (4Gb to 8Gb). Since about then, I'm seeing these errors in syslog:
Code: Jun 6 22:23:52 howler console-kit-daemon[1224]: WARNING: Failed to add monitor on '/dev/tty2': No space left on device Jun 6 22:23:59 howler console-kit-daemon[1224]: WARNING: Failed to add monitor on '/dev/pts/0': No space left on device I also get errors when running "tail -f" as root:
Code: tail: cannot watch `/var/log/syslog': No space left on device
I searched around and I found some other reports of the tail -f error, with the suggestion of increasing fs.inotify.max_user_watches. I set it to 16384, and that at first resolved the tail -f problem, but now I'm getting that error again even after upping max_user_watches.
I know swap is suggested to be approx. the same size as RAM, but with this upgrade RAM is now bigger than the 5.7G of swap.
I am having trouble with connecting my Sony Ericsson phone with my Ubuntu 9.10 using USB. It doesn't matter how I choose to connect it - "File Transfer" and "Phone Mode" - both does not work. The phone IS charching, when it is connected, but it doesn't shows anywhere. When I type "lsusb" in terminal, it does not show me my phone. When I look in "/var/log/messages" there is NO error. It does not even show the procedure of connecting and disconnecting the phone. What could be the problem?
For the record, I'm having the same issue as the OP with Lucid with a backported 2.6.35-28 kernel and a Samsung scx-4623fw printer hooked up via USB. Same symptoms - lsusb hangs until the printer is unplugged, devices aren't recognized, etc. Dmesg output includes a bunch of device descriptor errors:
[603.091961] usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 9 [618.241335] usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110 [633.521986] usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
I suddenly started having a bunch of USB issues (including complete system locks whenever I plugged in a logitech USB mic) around early march with the stock lucid kernel. Everything was fine before that.
I'm designing an embedded USB device. When I connect the device to the computer, I get the following messages:
usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error 2 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error 2 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error 2 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/8, error -71 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/8, error -71 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/8, error -71
Note that other USB devices work fine. I am fairly certain that the problem is with my hardware. I'd like info on what these error messages mean to help my debug. Searching Google I wasn't able to find any explanations about what these errors mean exactly.
I'm running Cent OS 5.4 with kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 on an i686
Unfortunately accidentaly I disconnected my usb drive my computer and my VMs run from so I just rebooted for a quick fix Now I can't open virt-manager locally and the VM's can't get network connections I see this in the logs after the last two reboots
Code:
grep lxc /var/log/messages |tail -n 2 Jan 7 00:45:04 F820 libvirtd: 00:45:04.524: warning : lxcStartup:1895 : Unable to create cgroup for driver: No such device or address Jan 7 11:52:53 F820 libvirtd: 11:52:53.325: warning : lxcStartup:1895 : Unable to create cgroup for driver: No such device or address
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I tried restarting libvirtd after with no love so I rebooted and cgroup was gone this was a clean install of F14, after this started I brought the system current, I can provide the packages installed but they errors didnt change
My old Creative Zen MP3 player has just gone titsup - it's gone into recovery mode and attempts to reload the firmware come up with device not connected errors (even under Windoze XP) So I'm looking around for a replacement and the Cowon D2 looks good as it takes SD cards like the zen (and I'd just bought 2 new 8Gb cards). The Zen used mtpfs which worked under linux but not well an I believe the D2 just connects as USB memory. Anyone out there using a Cowon D2 under Linux?
While I had the case open to swap out a network card I thought I would drop in an old USB card (previously used with no problems on a machine running Debian) however on boot I'm now getting some errors showing up. The card has been sitting around for a while so it could be an issue with the card.
Error occurred while booting from QEMU. I am building a minimalistic linux kernel using virtual hard disk. GRUB was loaded successfully. But while booting kernel, I got the following errors :
"can't open /dev/tty2 : No such device or address " "can't open /dev/tty3 : No such device or address " "can't open /dev/tty4 : No such device or address "
I, then created these files using mknod. Still the same errors occur.
Interesting problem: For the first time with Xubuntu 10.10 64bit, I am finding certain applications print corrupt. A varying amount of letters / numbers either get substituted/print a blank space/ print a box etc etc. This corruption seems to happen from a Pdf ( evince ) or Spreadheet ( Gnumeric ) Opening the same Pdf on another machine (ubuntu 10.10 32bit) prints perfectly. Opening the same .xls file on the original computer but using OOo Calc prints perfectly.
I guess I have ruled out any problems with the printer itself or the network JetDirect box. I have re-installed CUPS and evince and upgraded to the latest version of HPLIP but the problem appears unchanged.
I cannot print pdf files. I have tried using okular and xpdf. The documents display in the program, but print preview shows a blank page. The printer then sends out blank pages. I have tried printing on 2 different printers using usb cables. Using terminal to process the commands shows error:
My wife has a canon MP470 printer and running ubuntu 10.10. I am able to print black and white, but unable to print photos. I got it to work using another driver, but not the 'correct' one for this printer. I have searched a bit and don't see anything about ubuntu 10.10, just older versions. Or should I just network her to my printer....?
Just installed drivers for Lexmark pro200 - S500 series. However although it is recognised by the system and has a tick by its name, And tells me it is connected via usb file goes to print que but will not print. Also tells me it is Printing - localhost! is this correct?.
I updated to the recent 9.10 version of Ubuntu and found that my printer no longer works. When trying to print, the printer just blinks and *occasionally* makes a noise and prints out a partial line of text or whatever. It's a USB connecting HP Deskjet D1420 that is not a network printer and does not need to be networked.
I seem to be having on going issues with my printer. I was able to print a garbled test page but I get a result from terminal of printer HP-Deskjet-f2400 now printing HP-Deskjet-f2400-0. enabled since Mon May 31 15:45:04 2010 Connecting to printer... and it just sits there. Nothing is in error with the printer itself though.
When I go to System->Administration->Printing no window pops up. Down on the bottom panel it says "Starting Printing" and then goes away. I'm trying to install my HP Deskjet printer,
I initially had a problem accessing the CUPS interface (see my other post) and got that resolved by adding the user "cupsys". Now, everything "looks" ok, and when I print a test page, it shows it as completed (in CUPS). However, the page never prints. The printer is a Canon MP600 (using the canonmp600en.ppd file to configure it). Here's the output of my conf file.
Code: # Show troubleshooting information in error_log. LogLevel debug
I'm running Kubuntu 10.10 with a Laserjet 5M printer. When I attempt to print a job from Firefox or from Okular, the job never gets onto the print queue. However, I can print test pages on the printer and also print from OpenOffice, so this seems to be app-dependent. I know the jobs aren't being queued because the job number doesn't increase (as shown by the jobs for the test pages). Both Firefox and Ocular give every indication that the print job has been processed correctly.
