I have just been in communication with folks at the University of Washington, who have had the same problem.
It appears to be an OS problem. Please contact: Carl Riches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> He and I spent half an hour talking about this. (206) 543-5082 Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 20 17:34:38 2002 > From: "Antony Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Patrick Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: LPRng: Print jobs stalling > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:35:32 +1100 > > Hi Patrick, > > Looks like you're having a late night from all the postings I've seen from > you today, hope things are well :-) > > Unfortunately no, I haven't solved the problem. I've posted to the list a > couple of times with various bits and pieces seeing if anyone else has a > resolution. > > At the moment, from the testing I've tried, I can only think that there's > some problem with the piping of the job from lpd to ifhp. IFHP appears to be > being started, opens a connection to the printer (does all the init stuff by > the looks) but never gets the job to print, so the jobs sits forever in the > queue as "active" until I delete it. > > I can replicate the physical side effect of the printer by starting ifhp > without passing it a job to print. > > If I remove filter=, then the job prints (but badly since there's no > filtering). > > No-one else I've seen appears to be having this problem, so I'm paranoid > that it's me, but I cannot locate where the issue might be. I've even run > the whole setup as root just in case it was a permissions problem. > > This is all running on Tru64 Unix 4.0g compiled with gcc-2.95.2. > > Have you seen this with anyone else? > > Regards, > Antony. > ----- > Unix Systems Administrator > School of Computing & IT > University of Western Sydney > Phone: (02) 4736 0771 > Fax: (02) 4736 0770 > > Programmer (n): One who makes the lies the salesman told come true. > > She said she had nothing to wear. I smiled. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:24 PM > Subject: Re: LPRng: Print jobs stalling > > > > Did you solve this problem? > > > > Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, > > Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 > > Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 > > LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com) > > > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 29 15:33:52 2002 > > > From: "Antony Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: LPRng: Print jobs stalling > > > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:34:00 +1100 > > > > > > Hi Ryan, > > > > > > I was wondering if you might have any more suggestions on my stalling > > > printing problem? > > > > > > I adjusted printcap as you recommended but the job still just sits > there. I > > > also tried shortening the name of the printer to just "8150" (in DNS as > > > well) but to no effect. > > > > > > The spool "status" file has this in it if it helps... > > > > > > using model 'hp8150' at 09:29:21.597 > > > pagecount using 'pjl info pagecount' at 09:29:22.683 > > > setting up printer at 09:29:22.684 > > > getting sync using 'pjl echo' at 09:29:22.688 > > > sync done at 09:29:23.230 > > > pagecounter 0 after 1 attempts at 09:29:23.391 > > > pagecounter 0 at 09:29:23.391 > > > sending job file at 09:29:23.396 > > > starting transfer at 09:29:23.397 > > > > > > It stops there and will wait indefinately. > > > > > > My feeling is it is something to do with IFHP, since if I remove the > entry > > > for ifhp/filter, the job will print. We do need ifhp (or something > similar) > > > to handle all the different file types though. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Antony. > > > ----- > > > Unix Systems Administrator > > > School of Computing & IT > > > University of Western Sydney > > > Phone: (02) 4736 0771 > > > Fax: (02) 4736 0770 > > > > > > Programmer (n): One who makes the lies the salesman told come true. > > > > > > She said she had nothing to wear. I smiled. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > > > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > > > > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > > > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. 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