gutsy sparc64 server: cupsys does not detect HP Laserjet 6L parallel printer

[earthforce_1]

I have a HP Laserjet 6L connected to the parallel port of an Sparc Ultra 5. This configuration works correctly using the latest Debian installation, but does not work with the latest gutsy build so I know it is not a hardware problem. I am fully up to date ( Dec 26/07) with all packages. The cups web interface does not report any existing printers, yet it is detected at least on startup. I hope this helps, it is a major showstopper for me.

Debugging info:

gary@zack:/etc/init.d$ lsmod | grep lp
lp 14040 0
parport 43600 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp

gary@zack:/etc/init.d$ dmesg | grep par
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-sparc64 (buildd@vivies) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 Tue Dec 18 04:42:46 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.47-sparc64)
[ 33.436951] hdb: unknown partition table
[ 81.233171] parport0: PC-style at 0x1fff13043bc (0x1fff13047bc), irq 8, dma 0 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 81.282467] parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L
[ 81.293811] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 81.396871] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 611.542765] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 612.661596] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 613.857305] ioctl32(parallel:4149): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(44005001){t:'P';sz:1024} arg(ffb26a74) on /dev/lp0
[ 616.502235] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 617.580468] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 2677.072211] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 2678.119897] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 2679.271605] ioctl32(parallel:4961): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(44005001){t:'P';sz:1024} arg(ffa96a74) on /dev/lp0
[ 2681.412970] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 2682.446915] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
gary@zack:/etc/init.d$

gary@zack:/etc/init.d$ lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
direct hpfax
direct hp
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
direct scsi
gary@zack:/etc/init.d$

[earthforce_1 (earthforce1)]

Dump of /var/log/cups/error_log

[earthforce_1 (earthforce1)]

A bit more information that may help:
lpr logfile
lpr: Error - no default destination available.
$
$ tail -f /var/log/messages
Dec 29 20:36:57 zack -- MARK --
Dec 29 20:56:57 zack -- MARK --
Dec 29 21:01:33 zack kernel: [260699.546784] ioctl32(parallel:11628): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(44005001){t:'P';sz:1024} arg(ffb08a74) on /dev/lp0

 tail -20 /var/log/cups/error_log
D [29/Dec/2007:23:25:20 -0500] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: No default printer
D [29/Dec/2007:23:25:20 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:25:20 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 9
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found: No destinations added.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Classes client-error-not-found: No destinations added.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Default
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: No default printer
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 9

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I have googled around and read through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems, (app-armour doesn't seem to apply to the sparc64 server version) but I am really stuck with this one and am looking for something reasonable to try. What is frustrating is that this did actually work with debian.

[Alexandru Plugaru (mephcpp)]

I have a similar problem with HP LaserJet 6L printer on x86 machine. It simply does not work and it does not even print a test page or anything. I use Xubuntu and I used system_config_printer.py to add the printer and configure it.

Debugging info:

$ lsmod | grep lp
lp 12580 0
parport 37448 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc

$ dmesg | grep par
[ 12.971031] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 12.992292] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[ 27.134460] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 27.134506] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 28.566243] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 58.806237] ReiserFS: sda3: journal params: device sda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[ 64.155813] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver

$ lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
direct hal
direct hpfax
direct hp
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
file cups-pdf:/
direct scsi
network smb

$ tail -30 /var/log/cups/error_log
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/LaserJet_6L
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 8 GET /printers/LaserJet_6L.ppd HTTP/1.1
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/jobs/
D [10/Jan/2008:11:02:31 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] CUPS-Get-Devices
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] [CGI] /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-deviced started - PID = 6328
I [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] Started "/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-deviced" (pid=6328)
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] cupsdSendCommand: 10 file=11
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "socket"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:58 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "hp"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "hpfax"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "lpd"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "ipp"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "beh"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "scsi"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "parallel:/dev/lp0"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "http"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "smb"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:04:59 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added device "cups-pdf:/"...
D [10/Jan/2008:11:05:00 +0000] [cups-deviced] Added dev...

[earthforce_1 (earthforce1)]

Unfortunately, I never got any resolution to the problem and couldn't afford to be without a printer anymore, (I only saw your post after the fact) so I ditched my 10 year old Laserjet6L and purchased a new stand-alone Laserjet 3055 I could plug into the network and forget about.