> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 15 14:41:35 2003
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:03:00 -0400
> From: Rick Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: Windows XP lpr - print jobs getting mangled
>
> I have started to have serious problems with Windows XP LPR print jobs getting
> mangled.
>
> Part of the print job prints OK, but then I get a fragment of a page and then a
> PostScript error.
>
> Printing the same job a little later from the same workstation works fine.
>
> It's closely related with periods of high usage (and a server load average of
> about 8).
>
> I'm guessing that the PostScript is getting truncated somewhere.
>
> A possible explanation might be that the server spool partition was filling up,
> but our monitoring system detects no such thing. Also, no errors of this kind
> in the LPRng log.
>
> Another possibility is that network speed is slowing down to the point that
> something is timing out at either the client or server end. I don't find any
> suspicious-looking timeouts in my LPRng configuration (all are the defaults),
> and I wouldn't know where to look at the WinXP end.
>
> A final possibility is that the printer is timing out. They're mostly Xeros
> 4400's and I can't find any timeout parameter. However, this problem started
> when we switched from Windows 98 with Samba to Windows XP with LPR.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Rick
>
> --
> |Rick Cochran phone: 607-255-7618|
> |Cornell CIT - Systems & Operations - Net-Print FAX: 607-255-8521|
> |730 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
Ahhh!!! You have, of course, enabled the 'save_on_error' flag so you can
catch when these happen?
Then you can try 'lpc redo <jobid>' to reprint them. Also, it will capture
the job and you can look at the data files to see what happened.
This was one of the reasons for putting the 'save_on_error' flag into the
system. First time in 7 years I have suggested its use.
Patrick ("Out of the tomb? Heck, out of the bituminous layer, that option") Powell
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