benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict) (11/16/90)
Ever since upgrading to 3.3.1, we've been having problems with printing from one of our workstations. What makes this odd is that of the many things changed from 3.2 to 3.3, printing wasn't supposed to be one of them. I quickly found out that the scheduler wasn't running. Any attempt to start it failed. Doing an lpstat gave the error message: lpstat: can't lock acceptance status Looking this up in the System Administrator's Guide gave me the following information: This is a temporary file in /usr/spool/.lp that prevents more than one "lp" request from being taken at any given instant. You will have to rerun this command later.
fsfacca@AVELON.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) (11/20/90)
> >Ever since upgrading to 3.3.1, we've been having problems with >printing from one of our workstations. What makes this odd is that of >the many things changed from 3.2 to 3.3, printing wasn't supposed to >be one of them. > >I quickly found out that the scheduler wasn't running. Any attempt to >start it failed. Doing an lpstat gave the error message: > > lpstat: can't lock acceptance status > > The directory /usr/spool/lp should have 2 status files (qstatus and pstatus) in them. Perhaps during the installation, they got clobbered. To recreate these files, just do: /usr/lib/lpshut /usr/lib/lpsched restarting the scheduler recreates the required files. Hope this was the problem. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Facca | fsfacca@avelon.lerc.nasa.gov | phone: 216-433-8318 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are at Witt's end. Passages lead off in *all* directions.