Bug 54286 - Jobs lost when printing large number of to printer
Summary: Jobs lost when printing large number of to printer
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 43459
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: LPRng
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL: www.lprng.com
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-03 14:46 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-01-10 11:27:59 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-10-03 14:46:18 UTC
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Description of problem:
When printing a large # of jobs to a printer an error occurs after a
certain # of jobs.  It says that there is a file open error when trying to
open "db.<printer name>".  No more jobs can be added to the queue when this
happens, until some of the current jobs are passed to the printer. 
However, sometimes this locks up the queue effectively shutting down the
printer.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Print a web page to a Post Script file.
2.Run a simple loop in your shell to print the same postscript file a few
hundred times.
3.This should work:
for i in `seq 1 200`; do lpr -P<printer name> <post script file>; done
4. Watch the status of the printer with the command lpq -L -P<printer name> 
	

Actual Results:  With the post script file I used it queued 68 jobs and
then started to give the same error over and over again about getting a
file open error with db.<printer name>

Expected Results:  I would have expected that my post script file would
have been queued and printed 200 times

Additional info:

You can watch the status of the print queue using lpq -L -P<printer name>

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-01-08 16:20:47 UTC
This might well be a duplicate of bug #47865.  When you say 'it says there is 
a file open error', what _exactly_ is the message?


Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2002-01-10 11:27:53 UTC
Ah, this looks like the one.


Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-01-10 11:28:18 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43459 ***


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