Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:30:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Nuno Teixeira" <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System freezes due to print job!!! Message-ID: <200111181830.fAIIUx763410@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Nov 2001 20:24:01 EST." <p05101000b810df136bbe@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p05101000b810df136bbe@[128.113.24.47]> <008801c16867$dd474440$0a00a8c0@qnuno>
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In message <p05101000b810df136bbe@[128.113.24.47]> Garance A Drosihn writes: : 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... :-) We had a printer at work that had this problem, but found that going to polling mode for lpt made it work. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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