From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Nov 8 17:24:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA55337B416; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA91O5x92786; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:24:05 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <008801c16867$dd474440$0a00a8c0@qnuno> References: <008801c16867$dd474440$0a00a8c0@qnuno> X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:24:01 -0500 To: "Nuno Teixeira" , From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: System freezes due to print job!!! Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 3:12 PM +0000 11/8/01, Nuno Teixeira wrote: >2. Problem: > >- I have a 100 pages PDF book to print and I printed about 50 pages. > I left the rest of the pages in a queue job. >- When I restart the system with the printer on and without paper, > the system freezes at login time. >I think that lpd is waiting for paper in the printer so that the >queue job starts or is wainting that the printer becomes online. > >If the printer is off the system starts normally. > >Does this problem happened to anyone? This looks very similar to the following PR: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/10991 I'm not sure if anyone is actively pursuing this. 'mike@freebsd.org' was the last person who commented on the PR. I haven't looked into the issue myself because I'm assuming it is an issue with the kernel or some driver, and not "lpd" per se. By that I mean, 'lpd' is just copying the file to a device, and I would expect that should not freeze up the entire machine -- even if lpd is doing something wrong. The other reason I haven't looked into it is that all the printing I do is actually network-based. I don't have any printers connected to a serial, parallel, or USB port... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message