Re: system crashes; reboots when printing

[karl agee]

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 00:21, David Wolfskill wrote:
 From: karl agee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 26 Jul 2002 20:44:24 -0700
 
  If this is a networked printer, then you'll probably want to
  use lpr but skip apsfilter.
 
 Excuse my newbie ignorance, but, how to do print a file bypassing lpr
 and apsfilter
 
 For a directly-connected (i.e., attached via parallel or serial port)
 printer, just use cp to copy the file to the device (special file,
 such as /dev/lpt).

David:

Yes, this printer is directly connected parallel port.  

It worked  8-)  I was able to print a simple ps file directly to the
printer w/o crashing!!!

Ok, so now_what..??

--karl


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Re: system crashes; reboots when printing

[Edwin Culp]

Quoting karl agee [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 | 
 | Excuse my newbie ignorance, but, how to do print a file bypassing lpr
 | and apsfilter

How about

# cat file_to_print.ps  /dev/lpt0
or
# cp file_to_pring.ps /dev/lpt0

ed

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Re: system crashes; reboots when printing

[karl agee]

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 09:25, karl agee wrote to recap:
 
  
  system: FreeBSD enterprise.workgroup 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Jul 
23 16:07:44 PDT 2002
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL  i386
  
  trying to print to a post script laser printer which works fine in the
  past.  setup using apsfilter.
  
  When I attempt to print any file from any program the desktop locks up
  then the system reboots.  why?
  
  I havent found any log messages when this happens.

If I copy a .ps file directly to the printer it prints ok.

I've updated ghostscript and that didnt work.  I tried running apsfilter
again and when I tried printing the test page it crashed.  So the
problem apsfilter?

I recently (last week) upgraded apsfilterdidnt have this problem,
should I drop back to the older version

any other ideas

--karl


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Re: system crashes; reboots when printing

[karl agee]

Here's the salient section of my printcap made up by apsfilter; what
should I edit here??

# APS1_BEGIN:printer1
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
lp|ljet2p;r=600x600;q=high;c=gray;p=letter;m=auto:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this



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Re: system crashes; reboots when printing

[karl agee]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 18:43, karl agee wrote:
 ok, what's going on here???
 
 system: 5.0-current.  
 
 trying to print to a post script laser printer which works fine in the
 past.  setup using apsfilter.
 
 When I attempt to print any file from any program the desktop locks up
 then the system reboots.  why?
 
 I havent found any log messages when this happens.
 
 I also run setiathome.  I've noticed that when this happens the seti
 workunit progress is lost and it starts where it left off at the last
 session.
 
 --karl

well...I tried testing communications with the printer via the method in
the handbook

# lptest  /dev/lpt0

you guess it...it crashed and rebooted as before.

what could be going on?

--karl



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