Subject: Re: LWPlusFonts corrupted
From: Tony Travis (ajt@rowett.scot-agric-res-inst.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 18 1993 - 15:09:12 EDT
Mark Smith (mcs@edu.umich) wrote:
: >From: ajt@rowett.scot-agric-res-inst.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
: >
: > In particular, I found that the "papd" process hangs attempting to open
: > a socket to a remote (Unix) printer for no apparent reason. I traced
: > this to a corrupted /var/spool/lpd/LWPlusFonts file that had been
: > corrupted. This has happened at least twice recently.
: papd doesn't open any sockets to remote printers; it does open the
: Unix-domain socket used to tell lpd that it has placed something in the
(blush) er, um ... I used "trace" on the papd process and it appeared
to be sitting there waiting for something to appear on a socket. It
woke up on an alarm periodically and eventually I killed the process.
I think that the corrupted LWPlusFonts file prevented the Mac's from
initialising a Unix 'LaserWriter'. I discovered that the users were
just rebooting their Mac's leaving their job in limbo if it failed to
print :-(
: queue (/dev/printer on a Sun). Regardless, it should be impossible for
: papd to corrupt the font file, since it never opens it for writing. In
: what way was the LWPlusFonts file corrupted?
I've sent Mark a copy of the file to examine.
Tony.
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