Gentlemen:
I'm having a printing problem on the 6.2 box at work. It's a pretty
vanilla 6.2 installation, nothing much customized about it at all.
We've got two HP Laserjet printers (a 4Si and a 4000N) both with
built-in ethernet adapters (and I presume built-in jet-direct services).
Both work fine... most of the time.
But often when I want to print a large document, nothing prints. For
example, the other day I had a 2.8 meg postscript file which I just
spooled like this:
lpr -Php4k_bo <filename>
Ghostscript chewed on the file for a little while then nothing visible
happened. I looked in the /var/spool/lpd/lp directory and there sits
the original ps file and a huge (around 60 megs) file converted into
laserjet commands. They just sit there, nothing is happening.
When this happens, SOMETIMES doing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart" will
cause a job to print, sometimes it won't.
I was able to get that particular job to print by sending it to another
laserjet which happens to be a SMB printer (physically attached to a
Windoze box and shared) instead of a jet-direct.
Anyway, when it is hung with a job halfway processed like that, doing
"lpq -Php4k_bo" will show the column headers (as if there were a job
in the queue), with a "0" at the beginning of the next line and nothing
else on that line, then at the bottom something about no connection
being active to/from the jet-direct.
I thought at first it might be a shortage of disk space, but there's
over 250 megs free on the root partition when there are no jobs stuck
in the queue, so there's still around 180-190 left when a job that big
is stuck.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Fred
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