Most embarrassingly, it turned out that the cable was not connected
properly!
My original query was:
> I have a Solaris 2.4 machine with a postscript printer on the parallel
> port (/dev/bpp0). This has worked fine for several weeks but now its
> stopped working. When a job is sent to the printer, it sits on the
> queue. Doing an lpq reports:
>
> Warning: edc is down: Failed to open the printer port. (Device busy)
>
> (the printer is called "edc")
>
> If the job is removed the message goes away after a couple of
> minutes.
>
> To try to fix this I did a series of lpshut's, and killed all
> processes which fuser revealed to be using /dev/bpp0. However the
> problem was still present after subsequent lpsched's. In desperation
> I rebooted, hoping that there was an internal error which would go
> away but after the reboot the situation was still the same. I have
> also power-cycled the printer to no avail.
>
> Has anyone come across this behaviour and if so was there a solution?
> I shall summarise of course.
>
> Many thanks for any help.
>
> --Chris
Thanks anyway.
-- | Chris Murphy: Department of Mechanical Engineering, | | University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK | | TEL : +44 1225 826826 ext 5558 FAX : +44 1225 826928 | | MAIL: C.M.Murphy@bath.ac.uk URL: http://www.bath.ac.uk/ |
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