Brother HL-5250DN duplex printing: loves me, loves me not, ...
by Michael Hannon
Greetings. I've got a brother HL-5250DN printer on my local network, and it
is *currently* not doing duplex printing under Fedora 20.
I've seen discussions of a similar problem in various places. The responses to
the problem seem to fall into several categories:
(1) Duplex printing must be *enabled* on the printer before it will print
duplex.
(2) Some printers are not well-supported under linux. You should check the
Open Printing database (or similar).
(3) Get the printer driver from Brother.
Regarding (1), the duplex option *is* enabled on the printer, and it *does*
print in duplex from Windows and Mac systems (and others -- see below).
Regarding (2), the printer printed in duplex just fine through various
versions of Fedora, up through Fedora 18 (the last version I had installed
prior to Fedora 20). Furthermore, it prints duplex just fine from an Ubuntu
14.04 system that I have running in VirtualBox on my Fedora machine. In all
cases the duplex printing capability happened without my having to expend any
brain power at all on the issue: it "just worked".
Regarding (3), I've tried that, but it didn't appear to help.
So far as I can tell, my problems are pretty similar to those reported by
other people. One possibly novel thing: I noticed, without paying close
attention, that some of the recent updates to Fedora 20 have been
CUPS-related. That motivated me to roll the dice and try duplex printing
again. And shazam! It worked!
If that were the end of the story, I wouldn't bother to tell it. The printer
once again does *not* print duplex. I'm assuming that the problem must have
been fixed by one CUPS-related upgrade and broken again by a later one. Here
are the candidates:
# rpm -qa --last | grep -i cups
cups-filters-1.0.53-2.fc20.x86_64 Thu 15 May 2014 11:48:18 AM PDT
cups-filters-libs-1.0.53-2.fc20.x86_64 Thu 15 May 2014 11:48:15 AM PDT
bluez-cups-5.18-1.fc20.x86_64 Fri 02 May 2014 12:18:41 PM PDT
cups-1.7.2-1.fc20.x86_64 Wed 30 Apr 2014 11:41:06 AM PDT
cups-libs-1.7.2-1.fc20.x86_64 Wed 30 Apr 2014 11:40:45 AM PDT
cups-filesystem-1.7.2-1.fc20.noarch Wed 30 Apr 2014 11:40:45 AM PDT
python-cups-1.9.65-1.fc20.x86_64 Sat 15 Mar 2014 03:09:34 PM PDT
gutenprint-cups-5.2.9-14.fc20.x86_64 Mon 23 Dec 2013 11:23:50 PM PST
cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-2.fc20.x86_64 Mon 23 Dec 2013 11:08:33 PM PST
Unfortunately, as I said, I wasn't paying close attention to the timing of the
not-work/work/not-work cycle, so I can't shed any more light on the problem.
If you can, I'd love to hear from you.
BTW, the driver I'm using is:
Brother HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript
and it *does* have the duplex printing option enabled:
Double-sided printing: Long Edge (standard)
Thanks.
-- Mike
9 years, 11 months
yum update took 99.99% of cpu
by JD
FC20.
I ran yum -y update.
After all the files were downloaded, the delta processing started. From
there on, all the way through to the end of
installation and cleanup, cpu was 99.99% taken up
by the update process, and the entire desktop became
unresponsive. I was unable to switch display windows,
of which I had 6.
The update had downloaded a total of 161MB, for a total
of about 30 updates, most of them wine related.
The machine is a dual core Intel running at 2.4GHz,
with 4GB ram.
9 years, 11 months
Dell Inspiron 1545 touchpad suddenly s-l-o-w
by Temlakos
The latest updates--pushed yesterday--cause the touchpad on my Dell
Inspiron 1545 to run v-e-r-y s-l-o-w.
It was so bad, I tried to reinstall Fedora.
At first the reinstall restored the swift movement of the touchpad pointer.
But as soon as it took the updates, everything slowed down once again.
When I run in Setup, the touchpad cursor moves swiftly. But not when
Fedora is loaded.
What a time for this to happen. I simply cannot use it for any kind of
presentation in the shape it's in.
What package might I possibly be able to roll back until somebody fixes
the problem?
Temlakos
9 years, 11 months
f20 bridges not starting on boot
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
f20 fully updated. Not using NetworkManager.
There are an assortment of interfaces and bridges defined in my
network-scripts/ifcfg files. The interfaces come up but the bridges
don't. I have to manually restart networking to bring the bridges up
and bind the interfaces to them.
This had been working up through f18 (didn't try f19).
Any ideas on how to get them to be created on boot or why they don't?
Is this a candidate for a bug report?
Thanks for any help,
Mike Wright
9 years, 11 months
FreeVxFS
by JD
What happened to FreeVxFS for Fedora?
I cannot find it in the repos.
9 years, 11 months
Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk ?
by Mickey
Has anyone used the Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk on Fedora ?
I have grub error on booting on a Fedora 18 Install, and I would like to
use the Boot-Repair-Disk.
9 years, 11 months
Re: Firefox Add-On has a malware effect
by JD
Installed from the add-ons
"PDF Download"
It reformatted my firefox display so that
it creates a right margin at least 4 Inches
from the rightmost edge of the firefox window.
I uninstalled it, but the malware side effect
is still there.
I will try to communicate with the author of this
piece of unmentionable stuff.
9 years, 11 months
mandb errors
by JD
I have a rather new fc20 installation (about 4 or 5 weeks).
After installing some packages for dnf and hawkey,
I thought I would rerun mandb to incorporate the new
man pages into the db.
Not sure why it belched these errors.
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/mjpegtools.1.gz: whatis parse for
mjpegtools(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/config.sub.1.gz: whatis parse for
config.sub(1) failed
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session-cinnamon2d.1.gz: bad
symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/mprof-report.1.gz: whatis parse for
mprof-report(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/inkscape.el.1.gz: whatis parse for
inkscape.el(1) failed
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session-cinnamon.1.gz: bad
symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/bison.1.gz: whatis parse for bison(1)
failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/config.guess.1.gz: whatis parse for
config.guess(1) failed
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man3'. Wait...mandb: can't
open /usr/share/man/man3/man3/wl_display_connect.3: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/wl_display_connect_to_fd.3.gz: bad
symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: whatis parse for
pcredemo(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/TAP::Harness::Beyond.3pm.gz: whatis
parse for TAP::Harness::Beyond(3pm) failed
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...mandb: warning:
/usr/share/man/man8/isdnctrl_conf.8.gz: whatis parse for isdnctrl_conf(8)
failed
mandb: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man8/btrfs-check.8.gz: Too many levels
of symbolic links
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/numastat.8.gz: whatis parse for
numastat(8) failed
9 years, 11 months
DNF Crash Installing Package and Resolving Keys
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
I was trying to install mysql packages from the yum repository for
Fedora 20 provided by Oracle and the fist package dnf tried to install
needed to have a key loaded from the key file specified in the
repository definition but crashed with the following stack trace. Has
anybody else seen this?
As a side issue to this, after getting the failure I tried sudo yum
upgrade and that just kept looping complaining that yum-cron was holding
the yum lock, is this normal?
warning:
/var/cache/dnf/x86_64/20/mysql56-community/packages/mysql-community-client-5.6.19-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm:
V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 5072e1f5: NOKEY
Retrieving key from file:/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/dnf", line 36, in <module>
main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 206, in
user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 82, in main
return _main(base, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 141, in
_main
ret = resolving(cli, base)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 169, in
resolving
return_code, resultmsgs = base.do_transaction()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 227, in
do_transaction
if self.gpgsigcheck(downloadpkgs) != 0:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 262, in
gpgsigcheck
self.getKeyForPackage(po, fn)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 1995, in
getKeyForPackage
keys = self._retrievePublicKey(keyurl, repo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 1894, in
_retrievePublicKey
ucd(e))
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
regards,
Steve
9 years, 11 months
