[LUG] printer problem with escputil

[James Kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

My printer responds to sudo escputil -i -r /dev/usb/lp0 with
cannot open ... Device or resource busy.

This has worked many many times in the past (this is the first time with 
Ubuntu 10.04 - I had to reinstall it).

I had just deleted it and switched it off then on in the hope of 
clearing whatever was the problem (having previously stopped publishing 
it on the network). The error log (for this operation) was:


D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:50 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: clients=1
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: jobs=36
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: jobs-active=0
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: printers=1
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: stringpool-string-count=383
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=6632
D [25/Nov/2010:18:00:51 +0000] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=8064
D [25/Nov/2010:18:01:30 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [25/Nov/2010:18:01:30 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 12
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost:631 
(IPv6)
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: clients=1
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: jobs=36
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: jobs-active=0
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: printers=1
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: stringpool-string-count=383
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=6632
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=8064
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 12 GET 
/admin/log/error_log HTTP/1.1
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:00 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients
D [25/Nov/2010:18:02:01 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as james using 
Basic

Any thoughts as to what is stopping it? One of the ink containers is 
empty and it would be nice to confirm it before changing one (black 
probably).

Thanks

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James Kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk
http://unitycontrol.co.uk

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