[Xprint] Solaris 9 GISWxprint quit finding printer

[Roland Mainz]

> Dante Bell wrote:
> 
> I have a strange problem.  All of a sudden xprint quit finding the
> printer that it used to find!

Did you upgrade the Xprint package or change anything else in the
printer setup ? 

> I have a printer attached to a linux
> box which runs CUPS.  The Solaris boxes used to see _default:3?

Is "_default" the host name of the Solaris machine ?

> as the
> printer from Mozilla.  Now, no printer is detected from mozilla, but
> all command line (a2ps, gsview, lp, etc) work just fine as do all my
> other applicaitons (OpenOffice, acrobat, etc.).  I removed the package
> and re-added it, but xplsprinters still tells me that there are no
> printers.

1. What is the exact message of "xplsprinters" ?
2. What does % echo $XPSERVERLIST # say ?
3. Is the Xprint server running (e.g. what does % ps -ef | fgrep Xprt #
say ?) ?

> Read over the FAQs and really didn't see anything left for
> me to try.

Mhhh. AFAIK there may be a a very small gap (e.g. race condition) at
boot time between the print spooler and the Xprint server - if the
spooler isn't fast enougth and the Xprint server comes up in parallel
then it may not see the print queues (you can verify this via doing a %
/etc/init.d/xprint stop ; /etc/init.d/xprint start # sequence to restart
the Xprint server (or use the "xprehashprinterlist" tool (which doesn't
require a server restart))).

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Bye,
Roland

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