johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine) (06/25/89)
I recently brought up 0.9 and find that I cannot print anything other than
the test page from the print program. I use neither YP nor netinfo, since
my network consists of one NeXT, one 386/ix PC, and one DOS PS/2. A few
minutes of poking around shows a lot of "cannot start daemon" messages, and
it appears that the spooler dies with a bus error immediately after startup.
On the console, I also get "unknown printer: np", even though my printcap
looks reasonable. Perhaps nobody tested printing without netinfo turned on.
Before I do a lot more investigation, I know that there have been lots of
problems with 0.9 printing and wonder if this one seems familiar.
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John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
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Massachusetts has 64 licensed drivers who are over 100 years old. -The Globecarlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (06/25/89)
/* Written 12:41 pm Jun 24, 1989 by johnl@ima.ima.isc.com in mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.next */ >> I use neither YP nor netinfo... >> ... a lot of "cannot start daemon" messages... >> Perhaps nobody tested printing without netinfo turned on. Bingo, you hit right on the head! They say accesses should go to /etc/* files if NetInfo is not running, but as for /etc/printcap, THEY LIE! The only solution I know of is to run NetInfo. True, this entails more of the headache of running NI. -------------------- Brad Carlson <carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> or <b-carlson@uiuc.edu> University of Illinos--Micro Resource Center--NeXT guru