Re: Uninformative printing error

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 04:53:47 GMT
"Ian Truelsen" <ian ihtruelsen 2y net> claimed:

> I have had my printer server running without a hitch for a couple of
> months now, but suddnely it stopped printing. When I load up
> printtool, everything seems fine, lpd will restart without complaint
> when requested. However, when I try to print a test page it declares
> that there was an error trying to print the test page. I thought that
> the problem might be that the printcap file or some such had become
> corrupted, so I removed and rebuilt the configuration, but no luck. I
> have tried the standard bjc-600 driver (it is a bjc-4300), the omni
> driver and the std driver with exactly the same results. 
> 
> Can someone suggest any other things that I can look at to try to get
> my printer working again? 

The permissions on /dev/lpX (usually lp0) may be wrong (crw-rw---- on mine, owners root.lp). I've also had spool directories go bad. What I did was remove the printcap, stop lpd, "rm -rf /var/spool/lpd/*, recreate the printer and restart lpd. It's worked for me before. I'm pretty sure it's worked every time I've tried it, though I can't be absolutely sure of that part. 

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