Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV!fsfacca From: fsfacca@LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: lp Message-ID: <8908161924.AA12314@lerc08.lerc.nasa.gov> Date: 16 Aug 89 19:24:58 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 39 Fletcher Robinsonwrites: > I was running 3.1C on a 4D70GT and I had a dumb printer hanging off a > serial port. I installed REV.G and the printer configuration went into > the twilite zone ... > Now, whenever I issue a lp , lpadmin , or lpstat command, it goes away > for about 30 to 60 seconds only to return an error message : > can't lock printer status > Any ideas about what happened and how do I repair it ?????????? I had a similar problem, not quite the same when I upgraded to 3.1 the first time. I was getting a "printer xxx has disappeared!" message. It turned out that if I needed to create a couple of status files in the /usr/spool/lp directory. I did this: cp /dev/null /usr/spool/lp/pstatus cp /dev/null /usr/spool/lp/qstatus and the printer "re-appeared". Now, I was just grasping at straws when I did this, but it solved my problem. I would also check the permissions on the /dev/tty port to which the printer is attached, maybe it got hosed during the installation. Mine says: crw-rw---- 2 lp bin 0, 4 Aug 16 15:11 /dev/ttyd4 If all else fails, why not re-install the printer. There is a program called "preset" which does a good job of removing printers (all of them, by the way). Hope this helps.. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Facca | phone: 216-433-8318 NASA Lewis Research Center | Cleveland, Ohio 44135 | email: fsfacca@lerc08.lerc.nasa.gov -----------------------------------------------------------------------------