netatalk laser printing problem under 2.4.18

[Dan Kortschak <dan.kortschak@adelaide.edu.au>]

I have just upgraded from 2.2.19 (woody) to a 2.4.18 kernel. This has
broken my atalk laser print setup. Although `pap -p' will print to the
printer, using the printcap setup with lpr fails.

The significant thing is the strace output seems to be:

socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 3
connect(3, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(3)                                = 0

lpd does appear to be running according to ps, but /etc/init.d/lpd-ppd
says it's not if you `/etc/init.d/lpd-ppd restart'. The pid file and the
process number returned by ps don't agree.

Under 2.2.19, everything is fine.

What is different with 2.4.18 that is causing this?

any help greatfully appreciated.

Dan Kortschak