Can't print from Firefox -

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 17 14:50:46 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:19 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I have a problem printing from Firefox.  The problem has been erratic 
> for the last ten days or so but usually just going to CUPS and 
> stopping/starting the printer corrects the problem until the next boot.  
> Now it absolutely refuses to print from the browser.
> 
> It will do a CUPS test page and it will print from the command line however.
> 
> For whatever reason the file to be printed shows the printer stopped 
> after restarting the printer?
> 
> ID  	Name  	User  	Size  	Pages  	State  	Control 
> HP <http://box6:631/printers/HP>-322  	tmpcVXzFI  	root  	1403k  
> Unknown  	stopped  	Reprint Job 
> <http://box6:631/jobs/?op=restart-job&job_id=322&job_printer_uri=/printers/HP> 
> Cancel Job 
> <http://box6:631/jobs/?op=cancel-job&job_id=322&job_printer_uri=/printers/HP> 
> Move Job <http://box6:631/jobs/?op=move-job&job_id=322> 
> 
>   	Sort Descending <http://box6:631/jobs/?FIRST=0&ORDER=dec>
> 
> 
> 
> The printer is on my wireless LAN and the setup has not changed except 
> that I went through the setup procedure once more just to try and 
> correct anything that might have been corrupted which seems unlikely 
> since the basic printer system has always worked with only the browser 
> having a problem.  I see nothing in /var/log/messages relative to 
> printing.  Not sure that's the right place to look /
> 
No it is not. Look in /var/log/cups at the files error_log and
access_log.
> 
>     HP <http://box6:631/printers/HP> (Default Printer)
> 
> <http://box6:631/printers/HP> 	*Description:* HP6840
> *Location:* Asylum
> *Make and Model:* HP DeskJet 6800 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
> *Printer State:* idle, accepting jobs, published.
> *Device URI:* hp:/net/Deskjet_6800?ip=192.168.1.3
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
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