Cups problem. "ReadClient() 5 IPP Read Error!"

[Steve Bergman]

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:25 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:41:44PM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:
> 
> > I have an ongoing problem with one of my clients' printers.  It's an HP
> > laserjet 5.  It is connected to an FC1 workstation parallel. 
> 
> In my experience, often printer problems can be traced to the firmware
> -- does the manufacturer provide newer firmware for this model?  If so
> it would definitely be worth trying that first of all.
> 
> > I've replaced the FC1 box twice, the printer once, and the printer cable
> > twice.
> 
> Have you tried connecting the printer to an FC2 machine?
> 
> > E [18/Aug/2004:13:01:25 -0500] ReadClient() 5 IPP Read Error!
> > 
> > I see this when the printer gets disabled.  So what is a "5 IPP read
> > error?"
> 
> This means that it was expecting to be able to read IPP data from the
> other machine, but for some reason could not.
> 
> > On the FC2 server, I have a similar situation, where a job will just
> > hang going out the parallel port to an HP 4050 right in the middle of a
> > job.
> 
> Is that connected directly to the FC2 server?
> 

Yes.  It is connected directly to the FC2 server.  I switched to
interrupt driven on the parallel port on the FC2 box and have not heard
anything as to whether it helped.

On the FC1 box, I switched to cups-lpd and it seems to have resolved the
issue.

-Steve