Comments on: cups — fixing cups printer problem: lpd failed

By: WJH

WJH — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:08:51 +0000

Thnx,

This is easier way to fix it that using the &*(^ cups webpage! commandline rules!

By: baxy

baxy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:36:17 +0000

yeap it worked , thnx

By: parveen dabas

parveen dabas — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:47:12 +0000

Great. worked for me too. thanks

By: Adelaide Printers

Adelaide Printers — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:56:27 +0000

Hi i am searching for this problem from a long time.

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:16:31 +0000

Thanks a lot! My printer problem got solved after following the steps that you have outlined. Moreover, it was fun as I understood exactly what was happening!

By: Abid

Abid — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:32:21 +0000

Thanks Buddy. I used reinstall the printer to fix the error. This worked fine. Unfortunately I couldn't find the error policy entry in the file.

By: Mark E

Mark E — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:28:09 +0000

Excellent - seems like a bit of a dodgy hack, but it worked so I'm happy. It's strange how you can't achieve the same thing in system-config-printer.

Thanks for the tip.

By: arumon

arumon — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:58:51 +0000

"cupsenable" command works for me.

By: blessedme

blessedme — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:33:38 +0000

This worked perfectly for me . Thanks a bunch.

By: Agamiyya

Agamiyya — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:51:06 +0000

Nice! Thank you!

By: Ameet

Ameet — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:44:41 +0000

you rock boss!

By: STE

STE — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:09:17 +0000

Clean and nice instructions.
Works well after CUPS update on Slack-13.1, restart with "/etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart" and everything runs again.
Thanks!

By: siva

siva — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:01:49 +0000

Interesting post, thanks for sharing this

By: pgri

pgri — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:41:51 +0000

Thank you! I have never seen this problem before but the solution worked perfectly.
RH5 2.6.18-53.el5

By: Kamil

Kamil — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:30:19 +0000

Hi akbar, this could happen for many reasons. Does it happen for any file? or only when you try to print one specific file? Some odd pdf files crash our HP2420dn printer for instance. If that is the case for you, then try changing the error policy as described at the end of the post, fix the file (e.g., conver to ps and back) or simply print it on another printer.

By: akbar

akbar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:04:49 +0000

It is not work for me. CUPS seems to simply rewrite the file "printers.conf" file to what it was before, i.e.
State Stopped
StateMessage /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd failed

just after giving print from my snow leopard and going to State Idle after resuming the printer manually after deleting the queue only

By: Shashank

Shashank — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:35:05 +0000

Why not simply enable the printer?
/usr/bin/enable $printername works for me.

Other option could be to increase the timeout option from the configuration file for cups.

By: Hal Huntley

Hal Huntley — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:37:32 +0000

I put the error message in to google and yours was the first hit. Well written documentation. I followed the advice and it worked just fine. In our case, it was a xerox printer where one of the color's toner was out for a while and so would not print. After the toner was replaced, obviously the "new" state of the printer didn't get back to the linux box (fc9).

By: Jakob Cornelis

Jakob Cornelis — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:42:31 +0000

It did not work for me. CUPS seems to simply rewrite the file "printers.conf" file to what it was before, i.e.
State Stopped
StateMessage /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd failed

By: AIX Dude

AIX Dude — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:39:17 +0000

I'm an AIX SysAdmin but a newcomer to SUSE Linux (SLES10). Used your two-line replacement and cups restart solution and it worked GREAT! Your article was well-written–concise and easy to understand. Thanks a bunch from a Filipino dude in sunny Southern California.

SUSE Linux 2.6.16.60-0.21-default

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:15:53 +0000

why not use cupsenable to re-enable printer??

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:17:05 +0000

You saved me a lot of time. Thanks very much. Suse Linux 2.6.22.5-31……

By: Koen

Koen — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:02:57 +0000

Worked on this on and off for a couple of days. Didn't know where to start searching (Linux box or MS Windows with LPD); Google's second hit for "troubleshoot lpd" directed me to your site. This solved the problem. Thanks !

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:44:15 +0000

Thanks very much to you and to Google.
I learned something new today and the punters are happy, which is why we are here .

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:38:49 +0000

Thanks for this…
The sudo sed -i -e 's/ErrorPolicy stop-printer/ErrorPolicy retry-job/' /etc/cups/printers.conf
and /etc/init.d/cups restart worked a treat.

—Redhat enterprise 5—

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:08:37 +0000

This worked perfect! Thank God for the dsplabs & the internet! (It's sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart in 7.10 in case someone doesn't know.)

By: Carmen Rodriguez

Carmen Rodriguez — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:52:35 +0000

Thank you very much!

Excellent post, very esay to follow

By: Gimili

Gimili — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:15:37 +0000

50 14 * * 1,2,3,4,5 sudo sed -i -e '/StateMessage Paused/d' -e 's/State Stopped/State Idle/' /etc/cups/printers.conf
55 14 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /etc/init.d/cups restart

I put this in a cron job. Darn lpd printer kept getting paused. This seems to be the cure to make sure it doen't get left paused. Thanks!!!

By: DanB

DanB — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:01:11 +0000

Thanks for the solution! The restart commands did not work for me in Ubuntu 7.10
service cups restart or /etc/init.d/cups restart

So I just fire up cups http://localhost:631/
Went to the printer and hit restart. All fixed.

Your instructions made it easy to fix.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:48:43 +0000

Thank you man. Your post just save me

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:38:11 +0000

Dude, I love you!

By: Radhika

Radhika — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:40:38 +0000

Hey it was a real useful solution. I was getting the error - /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket failed and it still worked. Thanks a lot.

By: Kamil

Kamil — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:38:19 +0000

Greetings from Brisbane George, I am very happy this info was useful to you!

By: George Hickey

George Hickey — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:18:12 +0000

Just though you might like to know - your solution is helping keep the blood supply in Ireland flowing! Nice one guys!! Cheers, G.

By: Godders

Godders — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:36:03 +0000

Worked a treat, you rock!