lpd causes crash with CPU PANIC !!
Mark Tamura
tamura at versatc.versatec.COM
Sat Apr 27 07:26:53 AEST 1991
In article <2286 at netmbx.UUCP>, weis at netmbx.UUCP (Dietmar Weis) writes:
>
> On a DECSystem3100 running Ultrix 4.0 sometimes occur inconsistencies
> in the lpd system (printing to lat printers), followed by a system crash!!
>
> lpc status said for example "no progress since 3 days" ,
> "waiting to connect" or "no daemon active", the error log says "output
> filter to lat malfunctioned (0)", "cannot open /dev/tty??, no such file or
> directory" or "job aborted".
I had the same problem. Apparent with Ultrix 4.0 the system will crash if
no output filter is specified in /etc/printcap. After I added an "of" entry,
everything worked fine. Also Digital support refused to make/send a patch
for a third-party printer.
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