topic Re: Print queue problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Print queue problem

Clarence J — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 00:19:53 GMT

I have the following error in my print log. The outputs to the queue actually "hung" in the queues and the error msg as follows:

lpsched: can't open temporary output queue

How do I resolve this. I tried to do an lpshut and lpsched but no chg.

Any help appreciated.

Re: Print queue problem

harry d brown jr — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 00:52:04 GMT

do you have any full filesystems - or very near full?

harry

live free or die

Re: Print queue problem

Clarence J — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:19:18 GMT

No filesystems full or near full

Re: Print queue problem

harry d brown jr — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:37:52 GMT

Do an lpshut, then verify that no other lp programs are running:

ps -ef | grep lp

Also, do you have the latest patches installed for lp?

Re: Print queue problem

Michael Tully — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:46:31 GMT

Hi,

Try and shut the lp schedular and start it again.

# /usr/sbin/lpshut
verify that it has terminated.
# ps -ef |grep lp
If it has not kill it and make sure that the
/var/spool/lp/SCHEDLOCK has been removed.
Start the lp schedular again.
# /usr/sbin/lpsched

HTH
-Michael

Re: Print queue problem

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:47:35 GMT

Hi:

First do an lpshut. I suspect that there already may be another lpsched running. Do a ps -e | grep lpsched. If there is another one running kill it. Cd to /var/spool/lp and ls. If SCHEDLOCK or FIFO are found, delete them.

Next make sure that the /var/spool/lp directories are owned by lp. Finally, do an lpsched to restart the scheduler.

Re: Print queue problem

Clarence J — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:27:46 GMT

Fantastic!

Yes, there was a SCHEDLOCK in /var/spool/lp!!

Removed it and it's ok now!

Thanks alot everyone!!! Pts for all