cups printers disabled randomely

[Rick Stevens]

Randy Easley wrote:
>> What ?signal? does CUPS get to disable the printer? Does it come from the
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>> system lpd somewhere?
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> I will let some with the know how comment on that part
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>> How can I track it? Cups error_log give no information.
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> Try setting the Loglevel to debug. It may point to something specific,
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> just a thought.
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> Already tried everything possible from cupsd.conf..  If printer is offline it will disable- no matter what you change.
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> I want to believe it's a possible network issues, but if I knew why...
> I'd rather just completely disable/ignore the "disabling printer option"  :)
> Also, I'm not sure how to write a custom policy, if that's what it takes.
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> Thanks for forwarding on... there are other forums who share this pain.

Uh, is this on a USB interface?  Recent Fedora kernels are built with 
CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND, which may put your hub or printer into powersave
mode and make it drop offline.  There are several ways to prevent this.
I can give you suggestions if you need.
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