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From: "Nuno Teixeira" <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>
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Subject: Re: System freezes due to print job!!!
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:20:47 -0000
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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>;
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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
>
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