Re: printing gone to hell?

["Jeff Hogg" <tastin blkbox com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael George <george mintcity com>
To: cartman-list redhat com <cartman-list redhat com>;
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Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 2:43 PM
Subject: printing gone to hell?


>Oh boy, I've really stepped in it this time.
>
>I just upgraded a client's machine from 5.2 to 6.1 and now it doesn't
print.
>I've *never had a problem with printing failing on upgrade before!...
>
>Anyway, when I send a job to lp, it goes into the queue, but the system
just
>sits there, acting like the printer needs to come back online (printer is
up
>and ready to go).
>----------------------
>waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
>Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
>1st    george     604  /home/george/axhome/spool0064a.ps     75130 bytes
>----------------------
>lp:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> 1 entry in spool area
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
>----------------------
>
>I've tried power-cycling the printer, but that does nothing.
>
>I've upgraded lpr to 0.47-1 and printtool to 3.43-1 (if that's relevant),
and
>I have "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" in my /etc/conf.modules and the
>modules lp, parport_pc, and parport all load.


This is a small, but hopefully important thought.  If I recall correctly,
the printer ports got a slight change in their numbering from 5.2 to 6.x
versions.  Take a look in your files to see if it is trying to use lp0 or
lp1 as the printer on the first parallel port.  The old way was lp1, 6.x has
it at lp0.  If its still being done the old way, you could try to edit the
file and restart lpd, or just remove the printer via print tool and
reinstall.  Hope this helps.

Jeff Hogg