WH Bouterse wrote:
> Thanks for everyones responses and patience in previous posts.
>
> I really wonder what is going on !? Some people seem to have no problems
> while others (like me) keep running into the wall. L-M 6.1 Helios
>
> I recently had another outburst of strangeness with lprm locking and
> /dev/lp0 disappearing but was able to bring it all back to life again
> after deleting the lp directory, leaving the 'lock' file in
> /var/spool/lpd, removing any printers in 'printtool' and actually having
> to reboot. This was a system that worked fine one evening and as I
> attempted to print the next am (machine had been left on ) there was
> nothing happening and lprm stalls out and the ques build up.
>
> I am still using lpr-0.38-3mdk.i586.rpm after the rpm -e
> lpr-0.43-1mdk.i586.rpm and can only wonder if something residual was
> left around which might affect my paticular setup. Of course I must
> reinterate that non of this had ever happened in 4 years Printer setups
> on Linux .
>
> If anyone cares to examine some of the notes I kept this time they are
> in the attached file!
>
> Good Hunting
>
> William Bouterse
> Juneau, Alaska
>
> The stranges thing is after attempting to print when the machine is
> "acting up" I find that there is more than one lpd (pid)
>
>
> ------snip----------------------------------------
> [root@home /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd status
> lpd (pid 5549) is running...
> [root@home /root]# lpq
> waiting for lp to becom
>
> #Okay I go into 'printtool and:'add local printer'
>
> #Does not detect /dev/lp0
>
Hardware ------??
The first thing I would check is the setup for the parallel port in BIOS, IRQ
and I/O address. SPP, ECP or EPP.
Then using a loopback plug, test the port.
It may be bad or going bad.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> #bring up 'printtool'
> #Go to 'add printer' ,click okay, and it locks up !!!HUH ???
> #close it out
> #do a '/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart'
> #bringg up 'printtool' again and 'add printer'
> #This time it comes up and detects lp !
> #Go figure!!!???
Test the port.
