Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:20:47 -0000 From: "Nuno Teixeira" <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com> To: "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: System freezes due to print job!!! Message-ID: <008001c16921$5f3942f0$0a00a8c0@qnuno> References: <008801c16867$dd474440$0a00a8c0@qnuno> <p05101000b810df136bbe@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hi, Thnaks very much for your help. The PR 10991 describes exactly my problem. Lets wait for a fix. Thanks again, Nuno Teixeira ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Nuno Teixeira" <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:24 AM Subject: Re: System freezes due to print job!!! > 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-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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