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Date:      Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:24:45 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        karl agee <kdagee@attglobal.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: system crashes; reboots when printing
Message-ID:  <p05111719b967b44d1918@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <1027734228.320.4.camel@enterprise.workgroup>
References:  <1027734228.320.4.camel@enterprise.workgroup>

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At 6:43 PM -0700 7/26/02, karl agee wrote:
>system: 5.0-current. 
>
>trying to print to a post script laser printer which works fine
>in the past.  setup using apsfilter.
>
>When I attempt to print any file from any program the desktop
>locks up then the system reboots.  why?

Try copying a postscript file directly to the printer (skip
apsfilter and all of lpr), and see if you still get a system
crash.  That will help to point to where the problem might be.

If this is a networked printer, then you'll probably want to
use lpr but skip apsfilter.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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