Hi Akop,
I think there was some trouble with vanishing printjobs in a few older
releases. I hate to say it but try for ex 3.8.3 (that's what I'm running
in production) I don't think you have a configuration problem...
best regards
~christoph
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> For the last few weeks I have been observing a strange phenomenon.
> Lots of people started complaining that printing has become
> unreliable. Often, a document has to be sent to printed twice or even
> three times before it prints out. This has been happening with our
> HP8150, HP4000, and probably other printer types. The print server
> runs LPRng-3.8.15 on Solaris 2.6. The Solaris clients use sysv lp
> system to send jobs to the LPRng server. Linux client use LPRng-3.6.26
> version of lpr command (using lightweight mode). I was able to
> reproduce this problem from Linux and Solaris clients. Our users who
> try to print from MacOS X 10.1.5 to the LPRng server also are saying
> that their jobs are often vanishing. Today I did the following
> experiment on a Solaris machine:
>
> akopps@pub-708c-20:~$ lp -c -d hp1 motd.ps
> request id is hp1-990 (1 file)
>
> The job printed. On the server, I see the following entries in
> status.pr file in the spool directory (note some of them might have
> been deleted since I found these at the very top):
>
> waiting for subserver to exit at 2002-08-23-18:17:19.388 ## A=<NULL> number=0 pr
> ocess=23759
> subserver pid 23760 starting at 2002-08-23-18:17:19.424 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+
> 990 number=990 process=23760
> accounting at start at 2002-08-23-18:17:19.424 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+990 numbe
> r=990 process=23760
> opening device 'kronecker.math.berkeley.edu%9100' at 2002-08-23-18:17:19.425 ##
> A=akopps@pub-708c-20+990 number=990 process=23760
> printing job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+990' at 2002-08-23-18:17:19.434 ## A=akopps@pub
> -708c-20+990 number=990 process=23760
> processing 'dfA990pub-708c-20.math.berkeley.edu', size 15224, format 'f', IF fil
> ter 'ifhp' at 2002-08-23-18:17:19.435 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+990 number=990 pro
> cess=23760
> IF filter 'ifhp' filter finished at 2002-08-23-18:17:47.056 ## A=akopps@pub-708c
> -20+990 number=990 process=23760
> printing finished at 2002-08-23-18:17:47.057 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+990 number=
> 990 process=23760
> accounting at end at 2002-08-23-18:17:47.068 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+990 number=
> 990 process=23760
> finished 'akopps@pub-708c-20+990', status 'JSUCC' at 2002-08-23-18:17:47.069 ##
> A=akopps@pub-708c-20+990 number=990 process=23760
> subserver pid 23760 exit status 'JSUCC' at 2002-08-23-18:17:47.073 ## A=<NULL> n
> umber=0 process=23759
> hp1@blue1: job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+990' printed at 2002-08-23-18:17:47.075 ## A=
> akopps@pub-708c-20+990 number=990 process=23759
> job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+990' saved at 2002-08-23-18:17:47.107 ## A=akopps@pub-70
> 8c-20+990 number=990 process=23759
>
> Then, I run an identical command two times from the same machine:
>
> akopps@pub-708c-20:~$ lp -c -d hp1 motd.ps
> request id is hp1-991 (1 file)
> akopps@pub-708c-20:~$ lp -c -d hp1 motd.ps
> request id is hp1-992 (1 file)
>
> Nothing prints. A packet sniffer shows that data is being sent to the
> print server. The jobs don't show up in lpq output. In status.pr file
> I see only two new lines:
>
> job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+991' removed at 2002-08-23-18:18:06.124 ## A=akopps@pub-
> 708c-20+991 number=991 process=23770
> job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+992' removed at 2002-08-23-18:24:57.235 ## A=akopps@pub-
> 708c-20+992 number=992 process=23897
>
> Next I send a job from the same machine. It worked normally. In
> status.pr, I see:
>
> subserver pid 23909 starting at 2002-08-23-18:25:49.731 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+
> 993 number=993 process=23909
> accounting at start at 2002-08-23-18:25:49.731 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+993 numbe
> r=993 process=23909
> opening device 'kronecker.math.berkeley.edu%9100' at 2002-08-23-18:25:49.733 ##
> A=akopps@pub-708c-20+993 number=993 process=23909
> printing job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+993' at 2002-08-23-18:25:49.743 ## A=akopps@pub
> -708c-20+993 number=993 process=23909
> processing 'dfA993pub-708c-20.math.berkeley.edu', size 15224, format 'f', IF fil
> ter 'ifhp' at 2002-08-23-18:25:49.744 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+993 number=993 pro
> cess=23909
> waiting for subserver to exit at 2002-08-23-18:25:49.794 ## A=<NULL> number=0 pr
> ocess=23908
> IF filter 'ifhp' filter finished at 2002-08-23-18:26:16.277 ## A=akopps@pub-708c
> -20+993 number=993 process=23909
> printing finished at 2002-08-23-18:26:16.278 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+993 number=
> 993 process=23909
> accounting at end at 2002-08-23-18:26:16.289 ## A=akopps@pub-708c-20+993 number=
> 993 process=23909
> finished 'akopps@pub-708c-20+993', status 'JSUCC' at 2002-08-23-18:26:16.290 ##
> A=akopps@pub-708c-20+993 number=993 process=23909
> subserver pid 23909 exit status 'JSUCC' at 2002-08-23-18:26:16.295 ## A=<NULL> n
> umber=0 process=23908
> hp1@blue1: job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+993' printed at 2002-08-23-18:26:16.297 ## A=
> akopps@pub-708c-20+993 number=993 process=23908
> job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+993' saved at 2002-08-23-18:26:16.339 ## A=akopps@pub-70
> 8c-20+993 number=993 process=23908
>
> Next, I print the file once again:
>
> akopps@pub-708c-20:~$ lp -d hp1 motd.ps
> request id is hp1-994 (1 file)
>
> Nothing happens. status.pr shows:
>
> job 'akopps@pub-708c-20+994' removed at 2002-08-23-18:26:38.465 ## A=akopps@pub-
> 708c-20+994 number=994 process=23936
>
> Next, I logged into a Linux PC and tried to print this file four times
> with lprng's lpr command. Nothing happens. In status.pr I see:
>
> job 'akopps@zag+918' removed at 2002-08-23-18:32:57.436 ## A=akopps@zag+918 numb
> er=918 process=24131
> job 'akopps@zag+920' removed at 2002-08-23-18:33:11.074 ## A=akopps@zag+920 numb
> er=920 process=24133
> job 'akopps@zag+921' removed at 2002-08-23-18:33:21.508 ## A=akopps@zag+921 numb
> er=921 process=24134
> job 'akopps@zag+922' removed at 2002-08-23-18:33:24.215 ## A=akopps@zag+922 numb
> er=922 process=24136
>
> I finally succeed the on fifth time and I see in status.pr:
>
> subserver pid 24139 starting at 2002-08-23-18:33:31.104 ## A=akopps@zag+924 numb
> er=924 process=24139
> accounting at start at 2002-08-23-18:33:31.105 ## A=akopps@zag+924 number=924 pr
> ocess=24139
> opening device 'kronecker.math.berkeley.edu%9100' at 2002-08-23-18:33:31.106 ##
> A=akopps@zag+924 number=924 process=24139
> printing job 'akopps@zag+924' at 2002-08-23-18:33:31.114 ## A=akopps@zag+924 num
> ber=924 process=24139
> processing 'dfA924zag.math.berkeley.edu', size 15224, format 'f', IF filter 'ifh
> p' at 2002-08-23-18:33:31.115 ## A=akopps@zag+924 number=924 process=24139
> IF filter 'ifhp' filter finished at 2002-08-23-18:33:57.680 ## A=akopps@zag+924
> number=924 process=24139
> printing finished at 2002-08-23-18:33:57.681 ## A=akopps@zag+924 number=924 proc
> ess=24139
> accounting at end at 2002-08-23-18:33:57.691 ## A=akopps@zag+924 number=924 proc
> ess=24139
> finished 'akopps@zag+924', status 'JSUCC' at 2002-08-23-18:33:57.692 ## A=akopps
> @zag+924 number=924 process=24139
> subserver pid 24139 exit status 'JSUCC' at 2002-08-23-18:33:57.697 ## A=<NULL> n
> umber=0 process=24138
> hp1@blue1: job 'akopps@zag+924' printed at 2002-08-23-18:33:57.699 ## A=akopps@z
> ag+924 number=924 process=24138
> job 'akopps@zag+924' saved at 2002-08-23-18:33:57.733 ## A=akopps@zag+924 number
> =924 process=24138
>
>
> Obviously, something is wrong but I don't know what. The print server
> box seems to be behaving normally in general, it's not running out of
> memory or disk space. "checkpc" reports no errors. Where should I look
> next?
>
>
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