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- From: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten Lif)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Transcript hangs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.075551.4692@ericsson.se>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 07:55:51 GMT
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
- Reply-To: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- Lines: 45
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eos92.ericsson.se
-
- Lately we've been having problems with Transcript (version 2.1.1) on
- our network. Whenever a large file is spooled, it will print out
- correctly but lpd never understands that it's finished and the queue
- hangs. lprm'ing the top entry (the big file) will clear the condition.
- Restarting the preinter daemon will cause the file to print out again
- and the queue then promptly hangs the same way as before.
-
- Peeking in the /var/spool/printspool/*/log files shows that no
- diagnostics from psif appear for those large files. psbanner will
- report as normal but the two lines from psif (start & end) seem to have
- gone AWOL.
-
- When I say "large" the distinction is rather vague. I have a 385 kB
- PostScript file that will always hang the one printer and a 73 kB one
- that never does. I haven't bothered to try and narrow down the
- interval. And, no, it's not the contents of the file. It's the size.
- PostScript generated by FrameMaker, enscript and other utilities show
- the same symptoms.
-
- We've seen the problem intermittently on several printers on our
- network. Currently, only one of them seems susceptible, though. My
- suspicions point in the direction of the flags setting in
- /etc/printcap. Could it be that some flag that we leave untouched
- actually needs to be explicitly set and we just hit it lucky most of
- the time?
-
- Currently, we do:
-
- fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xs#0040040
-
- which does leave a number of bits untouched.
-
- The printer that currently always hangs is connected to /dev/ttyh1 on
- an ALM card but we've seen the problem (though not in the last few
- weeks) on one that sits on the /dev/ttyb port as well.
-
- Does anybody have any clues? Replies by E-mail preferred. I'll
- summarize to the net if it turns out to be of general interest and not
- just a matter of RTFM on our side.
-
- ---
- Torsten Lif
- Ericsson Telecom AB, EO/ETX/TX/AD
- S-126 25 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
- Phone: +46 8 719 4881
-