CUPS, USB printers & "Permission Denied"

[Anthony Agelastos]

On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Nicolas Blais wrote:

> On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:32, John Nielsen wrote:
>> On Sunday 25 June 2006 20:04, Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>> On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, John Nielsen wrote:
>>>> On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>>>> I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web
>>>>> interface shows the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> hp_LaserJet_1160Le (Default Printer) "Unable to open USB device
>>>>> "usb:/dev/ulpt0": Permission denied"
>>>>>     Description: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1160Le
>>>>> Location: Den
>>>>> Make and Model: HP LaserJet 1160 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
>>>>> Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published.
>>>>> Device URI: usb:/dev/ulpt0
>>>>>
>>>>> Doing a `dmesg | grep ulpt0`, I get
>>>>>
>>>>> ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1160 series, rev 1.10/1.00,
>>>>> addr 2,
>>>>> iclass 7/1
>>>>> ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
>>>>>
>>>>> The printer itself works (I plugged it directly into my MacBook
>>>>> and it
>>>>> printed fine). To ensure it wasn't an awkward build error, I  
>>>>> issued a
>>>>>
>>>>> `portupgrade -fR cups`
>>>>>
>>>>> and rebuilt it and everything it is dependent upon. Does anyone
>>>>> else have
>>>>> any ideas? I am running an early 6.1-STABLE (FreeBSD dell.home.iq
>>>>> 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sat May 13 01:04:32 EDT 2006
>>>>> root at dell.home.iq:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IQKERNEL  i386).
>>>>
>>>> Just a "me too" so far with an el cheapo Lexmark USB laser printer
>>>> (E210).
>>>> Are you using the foomatic script? I am, with a PPD from
>>>> linuxprinting.org.
>>>
>>> I am not sure, actually (it was so long ago, I do not remember how I
>>> got it working). I installed hpijs and "Make and Model" mentions
>>> Foomatic/hpijs, so perhaps. I am sorry I could not be of more
>>> assistance with this question.
>>>
>>>> I'm going to try backing up and blowing away my etc/cups dir, re-
>>>> updating
>>>> the port, reinstalling foomatic and my ppd, and see if that  
>>>> makes any
>>>> difference. I'll post whatever I learn.
>>>
>>> Thank you for posting your findings and for your quick reply.
>>
>> No luck. I basically re-installed everything (including config  
>> files and
>> the foomatic filters) from scratch. I also changed the permissions
>> on /dev/ulpt0 to be 0664 for root:cups. That prevents the permissions
>> error, but I still get nothing from the printer. The message that  
>> comes up
>> in the cups web interface when I try to print a test page is:
>>
>> "/usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/usb failed"
>>
>> I did get my other printer (on a different machine) working with  
>> cups 1.2.0
>> by just changing the permissions on the device node. I hadn't ever  
>> set this
>> printer up with cups before today, though. It's using gutenprint.
>>
>
> After playing with the permissions on ulpt, I can print a test  
> page, though
> half of it comes out after I manually feed my printer.
>
> After that half-printed page, anything I try to print after will  
> get me a "USB
> port busy; will retry in 30 seconds..." message and it never prints.
My system essentially does the same thing (the 30 second message that  
is). After changing my  LogLevel and killing and resubmitting a test  
page, here is my error_log file. Does anyone else have any idea what  
I can try next? Everyone on this list has been wonderful with this  
thread. Thanks again.

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