HP Printer and full hard drive

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#1

I have a problem that first surfaced whilst I was using 12.1, but persists now I have upgraded to 12.2, same PC hardware.

I have a HP Officejet 6313. When the print job fails to complete or I attempt to cancel a job, then the var/log/messages and var/log/warn file rapidly grows in size until, after a couple of hours, the hard drive is completely full.

The entry in the same:-

Feb 26 10:28:54 steve kernel: [69974.852965] usb 3-4: usbfs: process 16811 (hp) did not claim interface 1 before use
Feb 26 10:28:54 steve kernel: [69974.852965] usb 3-4: usbfs: process 16812 (hp) did not claim interface 1 before use
Feb 26 10:28:54 steve kernel: [69974.852965] usb 3-4: usbfs: process 16813 (hp) did not claim interface 1 before use

etc

It seems that if I disable the printer in YaST, then the error message eventually stops re-loading in the ‘message’ and ‘warn’ files.

Has anyone experienced similar problems and have a solution?

#2

hplip has known problems and should be upgraded. My suggestion is to add the openSUSE 12.2 printing repository in YaST. The KDE instructions would be:

  1. Go to YaST (Enter Root Password) / Software / Software Repository and specify the URL addition of the **Printing **Repository
"http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_12.2/"

excluding the quotes.

  1. Go to YaST (Enter Root Password) / Software / Software Management and select** Options** and check Allow Vendor Change.

  2. Again, still in Software Management select Package / All Packages / Update if newer version available and press the **Accept **button on the bottom right.

Thank You,

#3

Thanks, I’ve added the Repository and there are several print-related files to update.

After ‘video drivers’, I find printing to be the most problematic in Linux. Eg. I have various printers across VPNs mapped (via YaST, Connection Wizard> CUPS Server IPP) to office and home PCs, but one, simple print error can result in repeated error messages informing me I haven’t installed these remote printers properly, yet they all print perfectly OK!

#4

On 2013-02-26 13:36, YeboElectronics wrote:
> After ‘video drivers’, I find printing to be the most problematic in
> Linux. Eg. I have various printers across VPNs mapped (via YaST,
> Connection Wizard> CUPS Server IPP) to office and home PCs, but one,
> simple print error can result in repeated error messages informing me I
> haven’t installed these remote printers properly, yet they all print
> perfectly OK!

Well, you should report those issues in Bugzilla.

Also, syslog daemons have some control over fast repeating messages. I
had limited success with that. Sometimes I have to adjust syslog to
filter out some pesky messages from being stored.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

#5

I would agree that video, printers and even sound top my list of hardware issues. When you talk about using a Laptop, its kind of hard to get every internal device working just like you want. However, for a desktop, I have tried to stick with what works most often with Linux and for Video that is nVIDIA and for Printers that is HP. No body is perfect as HP was found to have their head up their, well you know the body part, when it comes to their board and CEO’s. But, their printers most often just work in openSUSE. As for nVIDIA, our main man Linus was inspired to shoot them the finger on live TV just last year, but what the heck. For the trouble I have had in the past with AMD video, I would have to shoot them my entire hand. So it goes it would seem.

Thank You,