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From: frobinso@cirm.northrop.com (Fletcher Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: lp
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Date: 15 Aug 89 22:14:23 GMT
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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 ??????????