lpstat freeze on 10.20

[steve_586]

HI,
Have a 10.20 box where lpstat freezes after displaying sched is running. Checked log and had some none existent printers in PSTATUS. Went through the usual (killing lpsched, removing SCHEDLOCK,FIFO etc), no joy. Tried re-adding the printers which stopped the error in log and the sched started ok..for a while the froze again, no logs. Tried removing the printers , still no joy. My question is..Will PHCO 29209 cure the problem as is? Is there anything else i could be missing to get the sched running (without having to recreate all the queues)?

Thanks for your time.

[Patrick Wallek]

If you are indeed running HP-UX 10.20 then PHCO_29209 will ABSOLUTELY NOT work for you. PHCO_29209 is for HP-UX 11.11 (11i v1) ONLY.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The latest lp cumulative patch for HP-UX 10.20 is PHCO_27133.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=PHCO_27133&context=hpux:800:10:20

[Keith Bevan_1]

Steve,

Its liable to be the patching issue as mentioned by previous posts but the following may also be worth checking.

If you have any remote printers configured then check you can ping these devices.

I Have seen unusual hangs (that are not actually hangs but lengthy delays) when the lpscheduler is trying to obtain status information from the remote queues. ie print servers that are down or internal network cards with incorrect ip settings etc etc.

If you are unable to ping a device resolve the connectivity issue and then you should be okay.

Keith

[steve_586]

Thanks for your replies guys,

I managed to get it working again, just.
The log was complaining about some non existent printers, i recreated this via command line (as sam would hang) and then removed them. Rebooted the box and it seems to be happy. I have downloaded the patch (for 10.20..) and will install ASAP.

Thanks again for the pointers.