I am asking this question by way of covering all bases.
Currently we have LPRng 3.6.19 installed. Everything seems to be working
very well except one particular printer.
This is a label printer hanging off a print server. There are a number of
these but this particular one tends to lock up at least once per day,
frequently more. There is no problem with the other printers in a similar
configuration. There appears to be nothing wrong with the cabling, the
printer (although we are going to swap that today), the printserver (we are
going to swap this after the printer) or the processing.
What we do find is that the subprocess has stalled. eg;
root_# lpq -Pp-undrcv6
Printer: lp68@u-underdale3 (dest pr1@ps-udale5) 'p-undrcv6'
Queue: 17 printable jobs
Server: pid 27426 active
Unspooler: pid 27425 active
Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 09:34:18.066
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
stalled(65219sec) root@u-underdale3+253 A 253 (stdin) 248
15:11:32
2 root@u-underdale3+825 A 825 (stdin) 273
15:16:49
3...
4...
5...
6...
etc
By killing the subprocess the jobs complete...
root_# lpc status lp68
Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect
Status/(Debug)
lp68@u-underdale3 enabled enabled 17 27426 27425
root_# kill -9 27425
Leaving the process and resetting the printer and printserver does not clear
it up, but after killing the subprocess a new one starts and the printing
resumes.
Are there any known issues with this version for this type of lock up? Any
other suggestions?
Thanks
Wayne Blom
System Specialist
Technical Development Healthcare
F H Faulding & Co Limited
Ground Floor
1 Station St
Hindmarsh SA 5007
Ph: +61 8 8241 8334
FAX: +61 8 8241 8357
Mobile: +61 0419 808 496
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