error when printer remove

[Jose_129]

I need remove printer,but present a error:
"Lp destination "qlasemis2" does not exist on rp2405"

Any news please

Regards

Jose

[T G Manikandan]

what is the output of lpstat -t

[Jose_129]

#lpstat -t

printer qmatemis1 is idle. enabled since Dec 9 17:43
fence priority : 0
printer qmatsini1 is idle. enabled since Dec 9 17:44
fence priority : 0
printer sismat is idle. enabled since Dec 9 19:13
fence priority : 0
printer qlasemis2 is idle. enabled since Jan 18 01:24
fence priority : 0

[Jose_129]

Any news?

[Geoff Wild]

Are you doing the following:

lpshut
lpadmin -Xqlasemis2
lpsched -v

Rgds...Geoff

[doug mielke]

I've had this before, and for me is was a missing spool file, might have been in the /var/spool/lp/reqest?

What I think I did to remove the printer was

remove the file /var/spool/lp/interface/printername

I was then allowed to recreate the same printername, which then created, or overwrote the necessary files.

then removed as usual with
lpadmin -xprintername

I hope this helps.

[Bill Hassell]

Someone has removed a file or files from the spooler subsystem...not a good idea. The pstatus file contains the printer names and connections (in binary format) and many other files and directories are created and loosely to this status file. If lpadmin -xqlasemis2 still fails, make a paper list of all the printers using lpstat -t then stop the spooler (lpshut), check that all lp processes are terminated (ps -f -u lp) and kill any that are still running.

Now remove all the printers using lpadmin -x and look at /var/spool/lp/pstatus. It should be zero length. If not, use the command:

cat /dev/null > /var/spool/lp/pstatus

And make sure that qstatus and outputq are also zero length. Now you can add the printers back and all should be well.

[doug mielke]

Bill,
For my future reference, since I have close to 600 printers on my system, could I make use of Sam's save spooler config to solve something like this?

[Geoff Wild]

Doug,

You can also back up the spooler from the command line:

echo Backing up the spooler configuration to /var/sam/lp/lp.new....please wait...; /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S -v -xsavedir=/var/sam/lp/ ; cp -r -p /var/sam/lp/lp.new/* /var/sam/lp/


Rgds...Geoff