Bugzilla – Bug 338605
printer is “paused” after re-pluged in
Last modified: 2007-11-06 10:15:18 UTC
Hi, sometimes I connect my printer to my computer, sometimes to the network. After I re-connected it to my own PC, the printer is “paused” and I have to start it again (with the need of root rights). This is very annoying and if I hadn’t have a root account, I wouldn’t know how to get my printer working again. Greetings
See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell "The Backends" See the "by the way" section at: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337665#c8 Since openSUSE 10.3 we have the new RPM "cups-autoconfig" which contains a utility for auto-configuring USB printers which is triggered by udev/HAL device events. It can also disable/enable print queues when udev/HAL signals appear that a USB printer is disconnected/connected. Its /etc/cups-autoconfig.conf contains by default: -------------------------------------------------------------- [CUPS] ConfigureNewPrinters=yes DisablePrintersOnRemoval=yes DefaultCUPSPolicy=relaxed Debug=yes -------------------------------------------------------------- It is triggered via /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-cups-autoconfig.fdi which runs /usr/lib/cups-autoconfig/cups-autoconfig which does the actual stuff, see /usr/lib/cups-autoconfig/cups-autoconfig --help Debugging output is in /var/log/cups-autoconfig.log Perhaps cups-autoconfig might help you if it is an USB printer (it won't help for the network). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 337794 ***