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Re: upgrade turned off lpd?



My lpd stopped several times with unknown reason. Command /etc/init.d/lpd
restart will let it work again. Now I suspect the reason is as you
mentioned, due to upgrade.

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:27:17AM +0200, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Earlier today, I could print.  Then I did an apt-get upgrade in
> testing, and I couldn't.  lpq showed my jobs queued and gave
> Warning: no daemon present.
> 
> When I did /etc/init.d/lpd start, out they came, and everything was
> fine.
> 
> Because of the time, I suspect somehow the upgrade did it, but none of
> the packages look as if they should have had any effect.  Here's the
> list of packages upgraded:
>   checksecurity evms evms-cli evms-gui evms-ncurses findutils htdig
> htdig-doc java-common kernel-patch-evms lesstif-dev lesstif1 lesstif2
>   libcppopt-dev libcppopt0 libevms-2.0 libevms-dev libgnome2-0
> libgnome2-common libkpathsea3 lilo lilo-doc modutils net-tools netplan
> plan
>   pump qt3-doc rep rep-doc rsh-client strace svgalibg1 tetex-base
>   tetex-bin tetex-doc tetex-extra xcdroast zope-book 
> 
> The most suspicious are the gnome libraries (my initial print failure
> was from gnumeric, but I also got it using lpr) and net-tools, just
> because it has a network feel (it doesn't seem to have any postinst
> type scripts).
> 
> I am posting this mostly to see if anyone else notices the problem.
> It's not well enough defined to file a bug.  The good news is that
> it's easy to fix.
> 
> I also see this in my system logs:
> Jul 31 16:36:59 wheat kernel: lp0 off-line
> 
> Hmm.. this tends to get the upgrade off the hook, since it started
> after that.  But I'm not sure what the connection is between that
> message and the daemon.
> 
> 
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