1.2rc1: jobs queue suddenly empty

[Michael Sweet]

Gerd Bavendiek wrote:
>> Gerd Bavendiek wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this one is a little bit strange.
>>>
>>> We run 1.2rc1 so far quite happy. Some minutes ago my phone started ringing. Users complained about missing spool output.
>>>
>>> And they were right:
>>>
>>> lpstat -o simply returned fine but without any output which is quite unusual. Issueing
>>> ll /var/spool/cups/d* | wc
>>> gave me about 70, which sounded reasonable.
>>>
>>> I was forced to restart cups. lpstat -o reported 68 immediately after the start. Things are running fine now.
>>>
>>> I checked error_log, but found nothing unusual.
>>>
>>> Maybe I should set LogLevel debug ?
>> Yes.
> 
> I've just done so (The trouble just happened again).
> 
> Dunno if it's meaningful: We've got an intermediate state: lpstat -o says:
> 
> FIESPOWN003-38923       unknown              0   Mon Apr  3 13:19:21 2006
> FIESPOWN003-38924       unknown              0   Mon Apr  3 13:19:22 2006
> FIESPOWN003-38925       unknown              0   Mon Apr  3 13:19:24 2006
> 
> Just a moment later lpstat -o comes back without any output.

This state indicates that the create-job request was received, but
not the job files themselves...

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