Lpsched dying when started (repost)

[Brian Ramsey]

I am having a problem with a Sun Sparc 20 using Solaris 2.5.
Up till last week I had no problem printing and then lplsched died and on
restart it immediately dies.
I have poked around in /usr/lib/lp and it starts up but when I grep for it
it is dead.
LPNet log file reveals:
01/22 18:53:40 p 1970 <none> Initialized & Polling.
01/22 18:53:40 c 1971 ((printer name)) Starting.
01/22 18:53:40 p 1970 <none> ERROR: class=NonFatal, typ=Internal,
trace=(LpExecEvent), Broken lpExec pipe.
01/22 18:53:40 p 1970 <none> ERROR: class=Fatal, type=Internal,
trace=LpExecEvent), Cannot recover.
01/22 18:53:40 p 1970 <none> Abnormal process termination.

lpsched log file reveals:
01/22 18:53:40: Print services started.
01/22 18:53:40 Received unexpected signal 11; terminating.

I have hpjetadmin software loaded and am trying to print to a hp lasarjet 5.
When I print a test page via jetadmin software it prints fine but when I
try to load the printer it advises me scheduler is not running and will
not let me load the printer.
Admintool will not allow me to delete the printers (I suspect because the
scheduler is failing) lpadmin -x all will not allow me to remove the
printers presently configured. Spooler looks fine and I mangage 100
positions and 6 printers without this problem. I realize there are many
patches at Sun but I have never requrired them before.... Workstation has
been (shudder...)rebooted several times during troubleshooting and no luck.
Any help would be appreciated - my next step is to manually remove the
desitantions from the spooler...
lpstat -t advises me scheduler is not running but 3 destinations,
including default destination are there. Any suggestions???

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Brian Ramsey - - bg...@freenet.carleton.ca

[Alex Sau-Leung Lee]

Hi,

I am not sure if it help. Check the file /var/spool/lp/SCHEDLOCK.
If this file exists (if lp stop normally, the file should not exist),
then lp services will not start.

Alex

Brian Ramsey (bg...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:

: I am having a problem with a Sun Sparc 20 using Solaris 2.5.

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Alex Lee
al...@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
Mechanical and Automation Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong