[OLUG] Speaking of printing problems...

John Kennedy jkennedy at orent.com
Fri Jan 7 16:29:53 UTC 2000


I had the same problem.  I found that if I did an lpq that lpd was not
running.  I would have to /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd stop then
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd start and my print jobs would run again.  I have no
idea why or even how it got fixed (For other reasons I reloaded RH6.1 on
my system and have not had the problem since.
John
PS - Tim, I stole your e-mail signature...That's the kind of guy I am...

Tim Russell wrote:
> 
> This one's going to be asked to Red Hat tech support, but figured I'd see if
> anyone had run into it here.
> 
> Last night I set up a server for a client who has a Laserjet 4 with a
> Jetdirect card (and no Postscript).  I used printtool to install it, told it
> it was a Laserjet 3/4/5 and to fix text-stairstepping.  Now, it prints fine,
> except it prints the same page over and over and over again when I print a
> test page (or anything else).
> 
> I tried debugging that monster of a print filter, but that was just too much
> to take on - anybody seen this?
> 
> Oh yeah, I found an lpr update on RedHat's site and put that in as well,
> didn't fix it.
> 
> It almost seems like something the print filter's calling, like maybe
> Ghostscript, is doing its thing but returning an error code.  Wierd.
> 
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