topic Re: printer not working in Operating System - HP-UX

printer not working

Gurumanickam — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:43:35 GMT

hi all,

Os: hp-ux A.09.05.printer:wipro LQ series (DMP). Printer was powered off and started again after that printer is not printing.
if i see from sam, it's showing the printer name. if i give print lp -dprintername filename, it's saying printername non existance, i tried to remove the priter from sam. it's giving /usr/lib/lpadmin has failed.i have calcelled all print requst and tried enable,disable and restarted print scheduler and restarted hp-ux system and tried reinstalling the printer (model name:epson) still i'm not able to get the printing. but if i redirect to printer device file it's printing.
ls > /dev/lp_printername

what may be the problem???????????

Thank in advance for your reply

Re: printer not working

Bill Hassell — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:29:03 GMT

This is a very ancient version of HP-UX so this will be a lot of hazy recalls and guessing. I will take a guess that this is a printer connected by a Centronics parallel cable. Since printing direct to the device file works OK and lpadmin reports an error when removing the printer, it sounds like someone with root capability has changed permissions or ownerships in the /usr/spool/lp directories.

Start by looking at root's shell history in .sh_history to see if someone issued any chmod or chown commands recently. If you have another 9.05 system, compare the directory permissions and ownerships for the ENTIRE spooler directory tree. That means:

ll -d /usr
ll -d /usr/spool
ll -d /usr/spool/lp
ll -d /usr/spool/lp/*

HP-UX 9.05 has been obsolete and unsupported since 1998 so it will be difficult to formulate a troubleshooting strategy.

Re: printer not working

Raj D. — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:16:45 GMT

Gurumanickam ,

Did you checked the printer status with
# lpstat -t

and
# lpstat -pPrinter_name

If every thing is ok, then delete it with #lpadmin -xPrinter_name and recreate it. Hope it will work.

Cheers,
Raj.

Re: printer not working

skt_skt — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:47:41 GMT

lp -dprintername reports the printername non existance..

It means the queue is not getting detected.verify if the q name is listed in /etc/lp/member.

Rcreating the q had worked for me in this kind of scenario and that require only spooler needs to be bounced.
How did u cancel/enable/disable when the q name is not accepted.