HP Printer Distribution Service is not starting

[jaminas]

Hi,
Recently, I experienced this on my box HP_UX10.20X clustered with another system of sam model (K450). The Printer Distribution Service which is started automatically with the script (S722pd) does not start. It returns with the following errors: "pdclientd returned with exit code 255. The Pdclientd could not start..."

I tried to start it manually but kept responding with the messages.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Hi,
what are the details in:
/var/opt/pd/pdclientd/*.log

[jaminas]

the messages are as follows:

in startup.log
"Started basicdsd: (pid 718)
Cannot start basicdsd: DCE error 382312513"

same error messages in startup.log.old

in error.log
"....
...
...
11/10/06 11:58:30 [] 5010-623 The HPDPS client daemon is listening on port 6874.
11/10/06 11:58:30 [] 5010-396 Sucessfully started the HPDPS client daemon.
11/10/06 17:01:30 [] 5010-395 The program pdclientd has been interrupted by the signal 15 (SIGTERM)."

[jaminas]

Hi, Peter,

I have posted the error messages in
/var/opt/pd/pdclientd/*.log as requested
but no response, however, I still post the error messages:

in startup.log

"Started basicdsd: (pid 718)
Cannot start basicdsd: DCE error 382312513"

same error messages in startup.log.old

in error.log
"....
...
...
11/10/06 11:58:30 [] 5010-623 The HPDPS client daemon is listening on port 6874.
11/10/06 11:58:30 [] 5010-396 Sucessfully started the HPDPS client daemon.
11/10/06 17:01:30 [] 5010-395 The program pdclientd has been interrupted by the signal 15 (SIGTERM)."

[jaminas]

Hi,

Could pls look at the errors in /var/opt/pd/pdclientd/*.log and see if they actually make any sense.

thanks.

[Alex Glennie]

Nasir,

I know nothing about HP Printer Distribution but the command "stdcode 382312513" yields 382312513 (decimal), 16c9a041 (hex): Connection request timed out (dce / rpc)

Which might suggest hostname resolution might be worth checking, also I'd look in /var/opt/dce/svc/*.logs for any clues and your syslog.log

Lastly ps -ef | grep dce ?

Sorry I can't be of more help.