lp: request ids exhausted for printer

[Rajasekhar Raman]

Hi there,

I installed a couple of HP JetDirect printers on a new IA64 system running HP 11.23. After installing when I try to print to it from the command line, I get the following error:

lp: request ids exhausted for printer: sys25si. contact LP Administrator

I tried printing a test page from the JetDirect software and was successful in doing so. I could not find anything in the forums regarding this issue.

Any help/suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks

-Shekar

[Pete Randall]

If these are defined as Berkely, or BSD, style printers, there is a limit of 3 digits for the request number. If not, I believe the request number limit is 4 digits. It would appear that you had a lot of print requests queued up!


Pete

[Rajasekhar Raman]

This is a brand new machine and I just set up the printers on it.

-Shekar

[Rajasekhar Raman]

The issue has been fixed. The "seqfile" in /var/spool/lp had the wrong permissions on it. It was owned by "root" instead of "lp". Looks like the sequence number can be manually reset in the "seqfile".

Thanks

-Shekar

[Rajasekhar Raman]

Thanks for your help