What you are seeing is a problem with the LPD spooler
support on the Ricoh printer and its TCP/IP stack
support. When do you a close the Ricoh is not coming
back with a packet (technically a 'segment') indicating
that the connection has been terminated.
I think that there is a firmware update that fixes this.
Patrick
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 28 07:38:03 2003
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:56:46 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: LPRng: Printer taking a long time to be "found".
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Well, if the Ricoh's lpd server is causing trouble, you can try connecting
> to port 9100 instead.
>
> ricoh220:|Ricoh 220 Afficio:\
> :sh:lp=ricoh220%9100:\
> :af=acct:lf=log:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:
>
> Phillip Griffith (803) 952-8776
> Information Technology Department
> Westinghouse Savannah River Company
>
>
>
>
> "Dion Gullotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> 02/27/2003 06:23 PM
> Please respond to lprng
>
>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc:
> Subject: RE: LPRng: Printer taking a long time to be "found".
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I do get a delay there. Do you know what might be causing it? Here's the
> strace output of that command
>
> <snipped the top part>
>
> getsockname(3, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(934),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.39.129")}}, [16]) = 0
> getsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, [0], [8]) = 0
> setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, [1], 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
> alarm(0) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ALRM], [], 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x40077ea0, [], SA_INTERRUPT|0x4000000}, {SIG_IGN},
> 8) = 0
> alarm(30) = 0
> write(3, "\4auto1\n", 7) = 7
> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, {0x40077ea0, [], SA_INTERRUPT|0x4000000},
> 8) = 0
> alarm(0) = 30
> read(3, "Printer status : Idle.(Energy Sa"..., 10239) = 41
> read(3, "Online/Offline : Online.\n", 10239) = 25
> read(3, "\n", 10239) = 1
> read(3, "No Entries.\n", 10239) = 12
> read(3, "\n", 10239) = 1
> read(3, "\r\n", 10239) = 2
> read(3, "", 10239) = 0
> close(****THIS IS THERE THE LARGE DELAY OCCURS***3)
> = 0
> open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/LPRng.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/LPRng.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No
> such file or directory)
> write(1, "Printer status : Idle.(Energy Sa"..., 40) = 40
> write(1, "\n", 1) = 1
> write(1, "Online/Offline : Online.", 24) = 24
> write(1, "\n", 1) = 1
> write(1, "No Entries.", 11) = 11
> write(1, "\n", 1) = 1
> write(1, "\r", 1) = 1
> write(1, "\n", 1) = 1
> close(3) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[], [], 8) = 0
> close(3) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> getpid() = 9959
> _exit(0) = ?
>
>
> As you can see it's looking for some nonexistant files. I don't have
> LPRng.mo anywhere on my system, and I can't seem to find anywhere on the
> internet that tells me what it's for.
>
> Any help appreciated.. :)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 28 February 2003 12:37
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Printer taking a long time to be "found".
>
>
> Try doing lpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you see a delay with this command,
> suspect the lpd server on
> ricoh220.
>
> Phillip Griffith (803) 952-8776
> Information Technology Department
> Westinghouse Savannah River Company
>
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