print spooler keeps shutting down

[Ginny Merlino]

Yesterday, Our systems power transferred to UPS because of a power outage. We successfully brought down the system and brought it back up. Today our printer spooler keeps shutting down on it's own.

I tried re-booting the system but this hasn't worked. I had tried this before when had previously had this problem and it worked.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

Try stopping and starting it manually.

/sbin/init.d/lp [stop|start]

Look in the syslog and /etc/rc.log for startup and runtime errors.

lpstat -t to check the status when up.

Try powercycling the printer etc...

Later,
Bill

[Rodney Hills]

Some left over files from the powerdown may have been left. Clean them out by doing the following-

cd /usr/spool/lp
rm Toutputq SCHEDLOCK
cat /dev/null >outputq
rm request/*/c* request/*/d*

Then start the scheduler again.

-- Rod Hills

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Ginny

DO the following :

1. lpshut
2. cd /usr/spool/lp and delete FIFO , SCHEDLOCK and CLD_FIFO.
3. lpsched to restart the spooler .

Also check in lpstat -t whether there are any pending requests which have not been completed bcoz of the power refresh , you can safely cancle those and redo the above steps .


Manoj Srivastava

[Ginny Merlino]

Hi Everyone,

I powered down my system and tried all of your suggestions so far but I am still having the problem.

Can anyone think of anything else?

Thanks!
Ginny

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

I can think of patch related problems, but before the power outage it seems to have worked fine.

But for sure read this one:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xba8684534efbd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

C.

[Victor_5]

Did you printer also experience power off? Sometimes, printer power off can cause some configuration lose on priter itself, I experienced it before, so move your eye to printer not only on unix box, maybe you can find some hints?

Good luck!