Many thanks for getting back to me with this Phillip...
In the interim I managed to fix the problem somehow by downgrading lpr
(RH6.2 rpm) and then upgrading again...?:-)
Don't know why, but it worked:-)
At any rate, will keep your info on the hard drive for the next time
disaster strikes:-) Thanks...
John.
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>
> Make sure you have an entry in /etc/hosts for localhost at IP address
> 127.0.0.1.
>
> My fresh installation of Red Hat 7.0 failed to create this entry, causing
> problems for lpd when it tries to start up.
>
> Phillip Griffith (803) 952-8776
> Information Technology Department
> Westinghouse Savannah River Company
>
> Laurence John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 02/02/2001 03:49 PM
> Please respond to lprng
>
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:
> Subject: LPRng: Re: LPRng hangs my laptop:-(
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to this list - and am hoping someone out there might just have a
> solution to a problem I'm having...
>
> I'm running Redhat 7 on a Tosh laptop - having recently upgraded from
> RH6.2. As soon as I did the upgrade I discovered that the laptop would
> not boot properly because of LPRng - each time the boot up process got
> to lpd the machine would hang - forcing me to have to physically switch
> it off...
>
> Doing an interactive boot up I was able to disable LPRng (the lpd daemon
> part) and the problem was solved... Interestingly enough there is no
> problem when I start LPRng manually thus: /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd start...
>
> Having solved this problem I *also* discovered that my fax software
> (fax2send 2.1) was no longer working properly...
>
> At this stage (well, after experimenting with a lot of other things) I
> decided to get out my Redhat 6.2 CD and install the old version of lpd
> (bsd?) that comes with Redhat 6.2 - and now find that the fax software
> works fine and all is well...
>
> If anyone has had similar problems or has any idea at all as to what
> might be wrong I'd really like to know...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John.
>
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