[16595] in Athena Bugs
Re: lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jan 12 04:05:46 1999
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jeremy C Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-print@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:14:08 EST."
<199901111714.MAA03550@mary-kay-commandos.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 04:05:42 EST
> Under sun, linux, and NetBSD:
> athena% lpr 1*
> Lost connection to printer....
> Broken pipe
> Exit 141
>
> Under sgi:
> athena% lpr 1*
> Lost connection to printer....
> Lost connection to printer....
> Lost connection to printer....
> I can't seem to be able to send your request to the printer.
> Please try again later or try using another printer.
> Exit 1
Interesting, I get the two different behaviors from a sun depending on
whether the printserver is an old DECstation, or one of the current
ops servers. Is it possible that you were trying to print through
different printservers on your different attempts?
> It appears to happen in cases where there are more than 26 files sent
> to the printer at once. I suspect it's due to the servers since it
> doesn't appear to be platform dependent.
That could just be because they are all running the same code.
However, in this case I would be tempted to look at the server first.
Right now, there is an effort to replace our current print server
software entirely. As a result of that, we're not currently spending
effort on trying to debug non-critical problems in the current
software. If you want to track down this bug, feel free, but don't
expect us to get to it ourselves (at least not before we see if
replacing the server software makes it magically disappear.)
Jonathon
