Re: Nothing prints anymore!
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said:
> > A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing
> > through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp
> > filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get
> > nothing.
> >
> > If I do 'lpq' it says :
> >
> > Printer: lp@local 'HP Deskjet 400'
> > Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> > Server: no server active
> > Status: job 'root@local+635' saved at 09:14:59.030
> > Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size
> > Time
> > done mns@local+609 A 609 (STDIN) 9014
> > 09:08:42
> > done root@local+635 A 635 orphan_files 94
> > 09:14:58
> >
> > The line that says 'no server active' is the one that disturbs me. What
> > did I do wrong, and how do I fix it?
>
> /etc/init.d/<your_print_server> restart?
>
> Did you do an upgrade of it recently? Something that might have caused
> it to be restarted that failed? Did you change anything?
>
> Steve
No. No upgrades. I have powered down the system completely and
restarted. Twice. The results are the same. lpq still says 'no server
active'. lprng gets started when the system reboots and I didn't see
any errors on boot. Would the message get logged somewhere and not show
on the console while the system is booting?
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