[17528] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.3.25Tue: reactivate, printing from acroread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Feb 10 17:54:28 2000
Message-Id: <200002102254.RAA14469@w20-575-42.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:54:23 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-42.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.3.25Tue
Display type:
Shell: /bin/athena/bash
Window manager: vtwm.gamma
What's wrong:
There's someone else's lpr process running on this machine, and when I
try to print from acroread, the lpr hangs. Reactivate had a chance to
run, and should have killed the other process.
[cfox@w20-575-42]cfox$ ps -elf | grep lpr
100 R #6485 13801 1 98 74 0 - 542 - 16:56 ? 00:26:10 lpr -Pajax2 /tmp/Acroc13774
[cfox@w20-575-42]cfox$ last
cfox pts/3 Thu Feb 10 17:19 still logged in
cfox pts/2 Thu Feb 10 17:16 still logged in
cfox pts/1 Thu Feb 10 17:16 still logged in
cfox pts/0 Thu Feb 10 17:16 still logged in
cfox ttyp0 :0.0 Thu Feb 10 17:16 still logged in
cfox pts/2 Thu Feb 10 17:15 - 17:16 (00:01)
cfox pts/1 Thu Feb 10 17:15 - 17:16 (00:01)
cfox pts/0 Thu Feb 10 17:15 - 17:16 (00:00)
cfox ttyp0 :0.0 Thu Feb 10 17:15 - 17:16 (00:01)
dougy pts/0 Thu Feb 10 17:01 - 17:01 (00:00)
dougy ttyp1 :0.0 Thu Feb 10 17:01 - 17:01 (00:00)
rmusa pts/0 Thu Feb 10 16:43 - 16:57 (00:14)
rmusa ttyp0 :0.0 Thu Feb 10 16:42 - 16:57 (00:14)
bcooke pts/0 Thu Feb 10 14:49 - 15:14 (00:25)
...
Between when dougy logged out, and when I logged in, there was time for
it to reactivate.
acroread defaults to /usr/athena/bin/lpr, which seems to hang; I run
acroread, open a pdf file, and click on file->print. After I click ok,
I get a dialog with a message to the effect "printing file blah.pdf page 4
of 4" and a cancel button, which doesn't go away until I click on cancel.
After that, if I go to file->print again, I get no print dialogue box,
unless I restart acroread.
[cfox@w20-575-42]cfox$ ps -elf | grep lpr
100 R #6485 13801 1 94 75 0 - 542 - 16:56 ? 00:34:30 lpr -Pajax2 /tmp/Acroc13774
100 R cfox 14260 14238 47 75 0 - 543 - 17:30 pts/2 00:01:14 lpr /tmp/Acrob14238
The file that it's trying to print, in /tmp/ doesn't go away, and looks
like perfectly good postscript. If I print it from the command line
with /usr/athena/bin/lpr, it prints fine.
I can't seem to kill my lpr process unless I become root...
bash: kill: (14260) - Not owner
If I'm root, I can kill mine and the other person's, easily.
/etc/passwd doesn't have any entries for other athena users, so I assume
the machine reactivated sucessfully before I logged in. Why it didn't
kill that other process, I don't know.
I noticed the other lpr process, btw, when I wondered why the machine
was slow, and ran top; top claimed that this process was taking up 98%
of the cpu.
