On 2/11/06, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I recently installed a new machine as my desktop, and upgraded Linux to
> the 2.6 kernel series. I also upgraded all the printing infrastructure
> (CUPS et al) to the latest version out of Debian unst*ble. Since I did
> this, I've had an intermittent problem with HARD lockups when printing.
> It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it locks up the
> machine so bad I can't even SSH in from another machine. I was just
> printing from Thunderbird, and as soon as it went to execute the print
> job, it locked up. The program I'm printing from doesn't matter. The
> printer knows it's about to get something, because the little light
> flashes like it's getting data. As soon as I reboot, the job that I sent
> to print now prints (usually).
>
> Anyone run into this?
We're using an HP PSC 2110(usb) with CUPS, local to a debian/unstable
machine with 2.6.15, and shared to a debian/unstable and a
debian/testing. Haven't experienced any machine lockups, although
sometimes the printer gets confused and thinks it's a robopuppy, and
has to be power-cycled. Although we did have an interesting issue
once when we accidentally filled the partition with /var. No warnings
or errors, just no printing and extremely erratic behavior.
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