Bug 43459

Summary:	large number of files, 'file open error'
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Beth Miner <jeminer>
Component:	LPRng	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	bob, y.chen
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Description Beth Miner 2001-06-05 03:20:39 UTC

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Description of problem:
Occasionally lpr will stop sending spool files to the printer. if you spool
up 100 files or so you can see it many times.. i just saw it five times.
Anyway, it almost looks to my untrained eye like a race condition.. in the
lpr log you get something like..

2001-06-04-22:06:30.777 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200: Open_gdbm:
gdbm_lock fd 87
2001-06-04-22:06:30.777 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200: Open_gdbm:
locking 87
2001-06-04-22:06:30.778 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200: setstatus: msg
'hplj2200: Open_dgbm: open of DB file 'db.hplj2200' failed, File open
error'
2001-06-04-22:06:30.778 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  (ERR) hplj2200: Open_dgbm:
open of DB file 'db.hplj2200' failed, File open error
2001-06-04-22:06:30.781 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200: cleanup: done,
exit(33)

If you restart lpd it will continue printing usually. I'm not sure how to
dig around for  deeper information, so that's all i could find so far. lpr
was called from a bash command like 
for i in *.2 ; do groff -man $i | lpr ; done 
which put 120 files in the queue rather quickly. I haven't tried it slowly
yet cause i'm not very patient..

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. submit a bunch of jobs to lpr
2. sit back and watch the log file
3. There is no step three.
	

Actual Results:  2001-06-04-22:06:30.777 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200:
Open_gdbm: gdbm_lock fd 87
2001-06-04-22:06:30.777 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200: Open_gdbm:
locking 87
2001-06-04-22:06:30.778 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200: setstatus: msg
'hplj2200: Open_dgbm: open of DB file 'db.hplj2200' failed, File open
error'
2001-06-04-22:06:30.778 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  (ERR) hplj2200: Open_dgbm:
open of DB file 'db.hplj2200' failed, File open error
2001-06-04-22:06:30.781 yucca1 [11632] (Server)  hplj2200: cleanup: done,
exit(33)


Expected Results:  It should have kept on printing.. should i be filling
these fields in still?

Additional info: Uhm... none, really.

Comment 1 Yong Chen 2001-08-07 15:11:20 UTC

I am having the exact same problem.  Hope that we can get a fix ASAP.

Comment 2 Bob Licitra 2001-12-06 00:29:11 UTC

I have the same problem with 2.4.3-6smp on a 2-processor i686
(Dell PowerEdge 2500 running Redhat 7.1)

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-01-10 11:28:13 UTC

*** Bug 54286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2002-02-15 16:57:28 UTC

I haven't been able to duplicate this with our current build, so I think it's
fixed in the latest package.

I'll see if I can track down exactly where the fix is.

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2002-03-05 17:33:03 UTC

Has anyone seen this problem on Red Hat Linux 7.2, or is it just 7.1?

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2005-09-16 16:00:07 UTC

We no longer ship LPRng.