> Well, after several years I've finally been able to consistently reproduce > the 79.00FE crashes on our 8150. I'm already dealing with HP to try and > get them to admit it's a problem with the printer!
Interesting. I would have expected it to be some PostScript... > Can anyone else who has an 8150 try this on their machine? > I'd really like to know if this crashes other 8150s. Sure, we have four HP LJ 8150s, with varying versions of things, but basically, three get the error and one survives with "root_ganymede_842" on the display. I've sumarised the results here: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuwf/8150.txt (not included in mail due to 180-char lines!) > The file contains only PJL stuff - it doesn't actually print anything! If > you print the file without any further processing and then have another > status message (ie Tray 3 Open, Toner Low) the printer will crash. You can > even use the lpd or ftp daemons on the printer. The results are the same. In all cases, there were two alternating messages before and after, "Ready" and "Tray N Empty" (2 <= N <= 4), because we never manage to have all our trays full :-|. Interestingly, the one to survive was our oldest printer, with the oldest firmware and oldest JetDirect card. An identical printer (of the same age as the oldest), on which I had updated the firmware, did not survive. > Any idea why this particular combination of PJL fscks the printer? (Perhaps it forgot to to a mount before the fsck? or maybe (and more likely) it did a sleep directly after the fsck instead of first doing an unmount :-) Will start wading into that PJL manual[1] ... Ashley GC. DCS, UoW, UK. 1.http://h200001.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/supportmanual/bpl13208/bpl13208.pdf -- Sick of all those Windows viruses, worms and trojans? Get the best anti-virus software going: Linux. Win32 Worm List: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/index_w32worm.html Linux Worm List: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/index_linuxworm.html Score: Linux - 40 ; Windows - 2600 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
