Subject: Printing problems (long)
From: John L Grantham (john@grantham.com)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 17:50:48 EST
Hi all,
I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to print using a Personal
LaserWriter NTR from Apple, connected via serial cable to /dev/ttyS1.
I am using a PowerMac G3 MT/266 with LinuxPPC 2000 Q4; the kernel
does have AppleTalk support built-in. Netatalk works fine on the file
server end.
First I used stty to throttle the port:
stty 9600 raw -echo -crtscts ixon ixoff cstopb < /dev/ttyS1
For reference, here are the settings Apple says for the printer:
http://til.info.apple.com/tilarchive.nsf/artnum/n15070
I have the printer set on 5 (9600 baud serial, XON/XOFF).
If I type in "cat test.ps > /dev/ttyS1", it prints fine. However, if
I try to print with netatalk or lpd, it doesn't.
Here is my /etc/printcap:
lp|SerialShakespeare:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:sh:rw:sf:\
:lp=/dev/ttyS1:\
:ms=-parity,onlcr,ixon,ixoff:\
:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:\
:br#9600:
:if=/usr/sbin/psf:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/lpd-errs:\
:of=/usr/sbin/psf:
lp0|AppleTalkShakespeare:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
:mx#0:sh:rw:sf:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:if=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ifpap:\
:of=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofpap:
Here are the permissions on the relevant files:
[root@hobbithole lp0]# ls -al /dev/ttyS* /dev/lp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 21 18:26 /dev/lp -> /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 2 May 5 1998 /dev/lp2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 64 May 5 1998 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 65 Jan 25 21:35 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 66 May 5 1998 /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 67 May 5 1998 /dev/ttyS3
[root@hobbithole lpd]# ls -al /var/spool/lpd
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 4 root daemon 4096 Jan 25 22:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 23 22:29 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root daemon 5 Jan 25 22:40 lock
drwxrwxrwx 2 root daemon 4096 Jan 25 21:35 lp
drwxrwxr-x 2 root daemon 4096 Jan 25 22:41 lp5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root daemon 5 Jan 25 22:40 lpd.lock
[root@hobbithole lpd]# ll /usr/sbin/ps*
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root daemon 4568 Dec 21 1999 /usr/sbin/psa
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root daemon 11232 Dec 21 1999 /usr/sbin/psf
Finally, lpc status says:
[root@hobbithole lpd]# lpc status
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
lp5:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
One strange thing is that, when I try to print (either with netatalk
or locally with lpr), something resets ttyS1 to 110 baud.
When I try printing with lpr, it seems the file is sent, but it just
sits in the queue forever and then finally times out.
If I try printing via netatalk over the network or pap locally, the
job gets queued repeatedly (the queue keeps filling up) until I kill
the queue with lprm -. In the meantime, I also get the messages:
Didn't get initial page count!
status: Permission denied
status: Permission denied
Unknown
Unknown
repeated over and over until I kill the queue. Finally, in
/var/log/messages, I get the following when trying to print via
netatalk:
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[7833]: lp_print queued
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7833 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7830]: 7832 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7830]: wait3: No child processes
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7827]: restarting
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost lpd[7369]: restarting lp5
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7827]: done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: starting for ?
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: sending to pap[7836]
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7837 for "Shakespeare"
from 65280.107
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: straight text
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7837 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: 7836 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: pausing
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7838]: starting for daemon
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7838]: accounting with psa[7839]
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7838]: sending to pap[7840]
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7838]: PostScript
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7841 for "Shakespeare"
from 65280.107
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[7841]: lp_print queued
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7838]: 7840 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7838]: 7839 died with 2
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost lpd[7369]: lp5: job could not be printed
(cfA830hobbithole)
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: restarting
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7841 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: sending to pap[7843]
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: straight text
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7844 for "Shakespeare"
from 65280.107
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: 7843 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ofpap[7835]: pausing
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7845]: starting for daemon
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7845]: accounting with psa[7846]
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7844 done
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7845]: sending to pap[7847]
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost ifpap[7845]: PostScript
Jan 25 22:44:50 localhost papd[5028]: child 7848 for "Shakespeare"
from 65280.107
This also gets repeated over and over again until the queue is killed.
Can someone help me out?
Thanks,
John
--John Grantham | Dipl.-Designer (FH) | Homepage http://design.macnews.de/ | Linux for PPC http://www.maclinux.de/ Web Designer | AGD Member http://www.agd.de/
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