> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 9 04:21:04 2002 > Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:20:54 +0200 (METDST) > From: Olav Kolbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [lprng] ifhp does not detect that printer is done > > > Hi there > > Quickish question. Moving from ifhp-3.5.4 to ifhp-3.5.10 added some good > stuff like better accounting and better support for newer printers. > However, we also started seeing a lot of queue hangs because ifhp gets > into a state where it never exits, even though the job for all intents and > purposes is done. Truss'ing the ifhp-process in various instances show > either that it's (permanently?) blocking on read(1, ..., 511) or that it's > repeatedly getting something like : > > read(1, 0xFFBEF4A4, 511) = 73 > @ P J L U S T A T U S T I M E D\r\n C O D E = 3 5 0 7 8\r\n > D I S P L A Y = " S T RD2 M S P A R I N G PD0 "\r\n O N L I N > E = T R U E\r\n\f > > over and over again. (STR�MSPARING P� means POWERSAVE ON, so the printer > has gone back into hibernation). There are various other messages being > received from the printer in the other instances I've trussed, but they're > all in the general "nothing going on on this printer"-category. > > The printer types in question are all mainly HP printers (8xxx, 4xxx etc), > but that may or may not be because we're predominantly an hp shop. Out of > the fifteenish thousand printouts each day, some fifty to several hundred > experience this problem. Percentagevise not a lot, but certainly more than > enough to possibly have to downgrade again. > > Any bright ideas? Heard about the problem before? Need more info? > > OK > >
Scream.... they have added/changed/modified the return codes for the printer when it is done/offline!!! I need to get a new set of codes for this printer. Can you contact HP and get the current set of status codes that will indicate that the printer is finished? Patrick Powell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
