Solved (SOLVED) Printer queue won’t clear

[Ro berto]

Hello all,

I'm still having issues with my printer which is connected to the router through USB (previous post), so I decided to format my PC and reinstall Windows from scratch to see if it was a Windows problem.

Unfortunately I'm still having issues with the printer queue.

When the queue is empty and I send something to print, it's printed without issue.

The problem is that the queue won't clear and if later I want to print something, the printer won't print it because there is still a pending document in the queue. (see attached pic)

Don't know if this will help or if it is related, but in the past when the printer would not respond, I would send the "service restart_u2ec" command that would fix it (see here), and now I'm getting this "u2ec: Error unlocking 29: 9 Bad file descriptor" errors in the system log:

Jul 30 16:11:41 kernel: usb 3-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-platform
Jul 30 16:11:41 kernel: usblp 3-1.4:1.1: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 12 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x8911
Jul 30 16:22:49 dropbear[20573]: Child connection from 192.168.1.10:45354
Jul 30 16:22:49 dropbear[20573]: Password auth succeeded for 'rhrl' from 192.168.1.10:45354
Jul 30 16:22:49 rc_service: service 20575:notify_rc restart_u2ec
Jul 30 16:22:49 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/service-event (args: restart u2ec)
Jul 30 16:22:50 dropbear[20573]: Exit (rhrl) from <192.168.1.10:45354>: Exited normally
Jul 30 16:23:19 u2ec: Error unlocking 29: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:23:42 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:23:58 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:24:59 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:28:14 dropbear[21232]: Child connection from 192.168.1.10:45380
Jul 30 16:28:14 dropbear[21232]: Password auth succeeded for 'rhrl' from 192.168.1.10:45380
Jul 30 16:28:14 rc_service: service 21235:notify_rc restart_u2ec
Jul 30 16:28:14 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/service-event (args: restart u2ec)
Jul 30 16:28:15 dropbear[21232]: Exit (rhrl) from <192.168.1.10:45380>: Exited normally
Jul 30 16:29:24 u2ec: Error unlocking 29: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:29:34 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:31:11 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:31:44 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:33:57 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:34:57 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor
Jul 30 16:35:51 u2ec: Error unlocking 34: 9 Bad file descriptor

Has anyone experienced this similar problem?

Any help is more than appreciated.

Router: RT-AC86U running Firmware Version: 384.18

 

[itpp20]

Is the printer port set for Raw or Lpr ?

 

[Ro berto]

How do I check that? I think it's a USB virtual port (see following pic)

I didn't do the TCP/IP thing, I went to ASUS webpage (this one) and downloaded this file.

That's how I did it in the past and I didn't have the current issue, don't know if it is related to the latest firmware :/

Thanks

 

[itpp20]

Ah, I never use such connections, always (tcpip) raw or lpr, try lpr (and enable lpr byte count). That has always worked, bugged firmware or not

 

[Ro berto]

Apparently the drivers from Windows are not the best, after installing HP's drivers, the queue clears

Sorry Eric again for doubting of the marvelous Merlin firmware, I don't deserve this firmware, I will slash my back with a belt and report back.