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- From: Markku Kivist| <markku@dmgr.fi>
- Subject: Pacer products on Sun
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.190745.12742@fuug.fi>
- X-Xxdate: Sun, 13 Dec 92 19:09:01 GMT
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- Organization: Data Manager Oy
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:07:45 GMT
- Lines: 86
-
- Dear readers,
-
- Does anyone have experience running PacerPrint on Sun. We have severe
- problems
- with that product. What we have done is as follows:
- Installed AppleTalk 2.4.11, PacerShare 2.4.8 and PacerPrint 2.4.12 on
- SPARCstation IPX running SunOS 4.1.2 (no patches) 16 MB RAM, 424 MB
- internal
- hard disk and 200 MB ext hard disk. We have two printers (Apple
- LaserWriter II
- NT and NTX) connected via LocalTalk through Apple InternetRouter.
- Varityper and HYPHEN Image Setters are connected directly to ethernet
- (thin)
- with Dayna EtherPrint (Ethernet to LocalTalk connection boxes). All the
- Macs
- are in ethernet Zone. All the printings are from Macs.
-
- Problems:
- If I try to print several jobs to any of these printers the first one
- usually
- comes out OK but the rest doesn't until I kill the related xxxxfilter
- process for
- the second one.
-
- Sometimes happens also that the spooler (PacerPrint) takes the job OK,
- but
- when it begins to send it to the chosen printer it just disappears.
-
- Couple of times has also happened that the whole system crashes.
- IPX just goes grazy with following messages to console:
-
- [Dec 8 23:09] [Varityper Spooler]: pid [199] setpgrp errno [1]
- [Dec 8 23:54] [Hyphen Spooler]: pid [272] setpgrp errno [1]
- [Dec 9 01:45] [vt600filter]: [%%[ Error: timeout; OffendingCommand:
- timeout
- ]%
- %
- ]
- [Dec 9 01:45] [vt600filter]: [%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to
- end-of-file) will
- be ignored ]%%
- ]
- [Dec 9 01:50] [vt600filter]: output_to_lw: PAPRead(EOF):failed:result
- [-7064]
- Dec 9 01:50:27 rotasrv vmunix: pap_read:ATpapNoSuchJob
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: s
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 50 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 256 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: Couldn't build aarp packet
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 50 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 256 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: Couldn't build aarp packet
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 50 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 256 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: Couldn't build aarp packet
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 50 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 256 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: Couldn't build aarp packet
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 50 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: allocb( 256 ) failed in alloc_msg!
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: Couldn't build aarp packet
- Dec 9 01:57:41 rotasrv vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks
-
- These messages are printed as far as STOP-A is inserted
-
- Thank you in advance for any hints to solve this problem.
- I'll summarize if someone is interested in this kind of subject.
-
- Best regards,
- /Markku
-
-
- DATA MANAGER OY
- Toivolankatu 5
- 20810 TURKU
- FINLAND
- markku@dmgr.fi
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