I'm on a modified Mepis system, and my apt.preferences are sitting now at "experimental", probably a bad idea, but I did that so I could get kde 3.4 installed. I just didn't set it back, and the other day I ran an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, and it upgraded a couple hundred packages in the pocess.
In the process, printing no longer works. Jobs get spooled, gs starts up, but nothing comes out of the printer. I have to remove the print job and kill the stuck gs process. In diagnosing the problem, I find that "strace -p <pid of gs-esp>' is writing a large amount of zero bytes through a broken pipe. That implies there's nothing on the other end, or whatever is supposed to be on the other end is not responding. I noticed also that while previously there used to be some processes "parralel" and "cat" that get started, but these are not there now. I then attempted to backport to the "unstable" cups but that does not help. I'm a bit confused and not sure whether I got all the bits and pieces of the stuff that's relevant to printing at the right versions (or ones that work). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
