Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 69290
magicfilter not re-entrant?
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:44:18 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-3 i586) Description of problem: Multiple dvips | lpr jobs that overlap seem to hang arbitrarily, requiring lpc> kill to restart lpd. If I separate the print jobs so that I don't dvips a file until the previous run of mf_filter has terminated, they print perfectly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): printconf-0.3.77-1 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. dvips a1.dvi; dvips a2.dvi; dvips a3.dvi; ... 2. 3. Actual Results: Printing system hangs after two or three jobs print, requiring lpc> kill to restart it. Expected Results: Printing of a1.ps, a2.ps, a3.ps, ... Additional info: The files print normally if the dvips steps are done separately, instead of in rapid succession.
I have had several reports of similar behaviour to this, but haven't yet been able to track it down. Any help would be appreciated!
This might be a clue: if I save dvips output as Postscript files, and do lpr a1.ps; lpr a2.ps; ... , I don't seem to get the problem (two tests only). So maybe it's interference between dvips and the printing system.
No longer use magicfilter.