Printing to a network printer broken - /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd failed

[Shane Synan]

What happens:
When I try printing to a USB printer shared over the network through my Linkstation Live NAS, the document is paused even though the printer is turned on and working.

What should happen:
The document successfully prints.

Steps to reproduce:
* Add a network printer (in my case the device URI is lpd://192.168.1.150/lp)
* Send a document to the printer

Results
* The document will get stuck in queue with a status of Held. Clicking the Release selected jobs button will result in the document getting paused again.
* Roughly six minutes later a notification bubble will appear stating that the printer is not connected, even though it is turned on.

Additional notes:
I updated CUPS today to the current version through the update manager, after which printing no longer worked. I did not change any settings, and restarting CUPS did not fix the problem. My laptop can still print to the same printer with the same settings as I have yet to upgrade cups or any related packages on it; I can check the cups version on it if it would help.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: cups 1.5.0-8ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 535d52cf08b1e59fc90ec42e434fc960
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
Date: Fri Apr 6 17:38:39 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
Lpstat:
 device for psc-1310: lpd://192.168.1.150/lp
 device for psc-1310-local: hp:/usb/psc_1310_series?serial=CN45F160JRO2
MachineType: Acer ASE380/AST180/APM8
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 psc-1310-local: HP PSC 1310 Series, hpcups 3.11.7
 psc-1310: HP PSC 1310 Series, hpcups 3.11.7
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-17-generic root=UUID=98687a2f-d7dd-4333-9237-9adc47e5602a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: R01-C0
dmi.board.name: EM61SM/EM61PM
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset tag number: at least 22 digits
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrR01-C0:bd06/15/2007:svnAcer:pnASE380/AST180/APM8:pvrR01-C0:rvnAcer:rnEM61SM/EM61PM:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: ASE380/AST180/APM8
dmi.product.version: R01-C0
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
mtime.conffile..etc.cups.cupsd.conf: 2011-11-25T20:09:03

[Shane Synan (digitalcircuit)]

Apologies for the bug spam, but with further research, I found out none of the computers in my network could print, so I don't think it's Ubuntu's fault. I'm marking this bug as invalid; if it ends up actually being a bug in CUPS, I'll re-open it.