sarima@gryphon.COM (Stan Friesen) (03/03/89)
We are having another, rather strange, intermittent problem. We are running UNIX System V release 2 on Convergent's 68020 based supermicros. Every once in a long while the line printer spooler gets into a really strange state. It seems to get the idea that there are two printers with the same logical name! This usually eventually results in the printer stopping even though there are jobs queued for output. The other main symptom is that 'lpstat -a' reports two printers are "accepting requests" and has two printers available for output, one of which is usually enable and the other disabled. Unfortunately both printers have the same name and only rebooting the system seems to clear the problem up. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I cannot find anything on the system which would explain the confusion, and I have not been able to determine what triggers it. Any help in avoiding or fixing the problem would be appreciated. -- Sarima Cardolandion sarima@gryphon.CTS.COM aka Stanley Friesen rutgers!marque!gryphon!sarima Sherman Oaks, CA