Printing problems with "can't open acceptance status file"

[Norman Heyen]

I have been trying to install an Ikon card to connect to a Versatec plotter. At some point I must have deleted or changed a file and when I run "lpstat -t", I get this response:

scheduler is running
system default destination: c1055tx
device for c1055tx: /dev/null
device for m_c1055: /dev/null
device for qms860_d562: /dev/null
lpstat: can't open acceptance status file

In SAM there is nothing shown in the accept column. Any hints on how to recover from this? Shouldn't be that hard, but I usually don't have to install printers...

Thanks!
Norman

[Frederic Soriano · Accepted solution]

This is probably because the 'qstatus' (queue status) file does not exist or can't be locked (because already opened for instance).

This file should exist under /var/spool/lp and appear as follows:
-rw-r--r-- 1 lp lp (...) qstatus

Best regards.

Fred.

[Norman Heyen]

Thanks! That was the problem, mostly. The file did exist but was owned by root:sys rather than lp:lp

Would never have stumbled onto that one...

Norman