PROBLEM:
I have installed Newsprint 2.0. I know that the following
things are OK:
- ASYNCHIO, LPW in kernel
- /etc/printcap identical to one that's working on another
similarly configured host
- lpvitest works
ERROR MESSAGE:
pl: stuck in type ascii looking for rev -b -T /tmp, please check your
filter chain path
/usr/newsprint/printer_classes/SPARCprinter/C/ps/npcomm.T: news server
wouldn't start
SOLUTION:
Well, I banged my head upside the brick wall for a week over this one.
Several users, particularly unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
responded with helpful suggestions. However, none of my tries worked.
What was frustrating the heck out of me was that an identically
configured machine was working fine. So, I ended up rcp'ing the
entire /usr/newsprint directory from the working printserver to the
dead printserver, and *voila*, everything's OK.
Obviously, there was something corrupted or mis-permissioned or something.
I still don't know what the exact problem was, but at least it works now.
David
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David Mostardi Phone: (510) 643-6071
Systems Administrator FAX: (510) 643-5348
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Email: david@msri.org
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