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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
