large jobs on slow printer loop forever

Rainer Hubovsky hubovsky at atlan.hubovsky.net
Mon Sep 6 11:03:08 PDT 2004


Thank you for your reply, Helge. To be honest, I have no idea how to "strace
the lpd backend". Could you point me in the right direction?

BTW: is there a way of testing all this without actually printing the jobs,
because we would waste a lot of paper.

Thanks a lot.
  +rainer


In article <413C511C.480E at srz-berlin.de>, Helge Blischke wrote:
> The first relevant error message in your log seems to be an "interrupted
> system call" (4), and 
> the lpd backend then tries to print the file again. The print server
> then refuses the
> control file with errno 108 which means (on Linux) "cannot send after
> transport endpoint
> shutdown"
> 
> To do further diagnosis, you should try to strace the lpd backend to see
> what happens 
> during the backend sending the data file for the first time.
> 
> Helge




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