[lug] LPRng not consistant

[D. Stimits]

I don't know enough about the printer system to debug it without a lot
of digging, but I suspect it is related to a temporary file somewhere
being stale. I assume it is started from an rc script, for RH you could
cd to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and run "./lpd status" and see if it says
anything useful. If not, run "./lpd restart" and see what that says.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

Rob Mohr wrote:
> 
> After a planned reboot, my spooler is auto aborting print spool jobs.
> Other than the reboot, I did not change anything.  But I am not clear on
> what the message copy may mean or what it is pointing to as a cause.
> 
> My session is as follows:
> 
> Blue:/home/robmohr/latex# lpr TycoValve.ps <enter>
> Blue:/home/robmohr/latex#
> Blue /home/robmohr/latex# lpq <enter>
> Printer: lp at localhost 'HP Laserjet 4L'
>  Queue: no printable jobs in queue
>  Status: removing job  'root at localhost+534' - ABORT at 15:24:33.155
> Blue:/home/robmohr/latex#
> 
> Why this would happen after an incidental reboot is a puzzle to me.
> Thinking it was a glitch, I shutdown and restarted.   I killed and
> restarted the printer daemon.  lpc status returns
> 
> Printer       Printing  Spooling Jobs Server Subserver
> 
> lp at localhost   enabled  enabled   0  none   none
> 
> Again,here I am not sure if an indication is wrong; I don't pay attention
> to what this status is when it is working.  I looks nominal to me.
> 
> a snippet from dmesg has
> 
> parport_probe: succeeded
> parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4L
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> 
> And that looks nominal to me, too.
> 
> I can't, at this time, think of any action that I took in the interrum
> between the last print job and the recent reboot.
> 
> Finally, I tried to line print as root, same thing about aborting.
> 
> eof
> 
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