[Samba] printjob stays in windows queue after transfer failure

Christoph Beyer chbeyer at mail.desy.de
Wed Feb 4 14:18:10 GMT 2004


Hi Jerry,

sounds reasonable, is there any sense in trying the 3.0.2rc2 release or
another way to help you ?

cheers
	~christoph

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> christoph.beyer at desy.de wrote:
> | Hi Jerry et al,
> |
> | I'm using the 3.0.1 release in 'ADS' mode with ~450 print queues and ~150
> | users (getting migrated right now, will be ~3.000 in the end). In general
> | everything works fine apart from some smaller driver configuration
> | problems, the usual stuff. Though I see a lot of errors in the log files
> | and it seems that sometimes the print job transfer fails (get 'zero
> | nothing to print' messages in '/var/adm/messages'). Now in these cases the
> | job naturally never shows up in the UNIX queue but it stays in the windows
> | queue window forever. As far as I understand it doesn't get wiped out in
> | '../var/locks/printing/<printer>.tdb'. Of course I could write a small
> | wrapper for the lpr command to check that circumstance and delete the
> | <printer>.tdb file ;-)
>
> Its more than that probably.  My guess is that a change
> notify is not getting sent back to the client with the correct
> jobid.  (which could be explained by one of the buig fixes
> in 3.0.2 or by the fact that the smbd crash and the change
> notify handle has become invalid).
>
> |   ===============================================================
> | [2004/02/03 09:41:15, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37)
> |   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 9213 (3.0.1)
> |   Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection
> | [2004/02/03 09:41:15, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
> |   ===============================================================
>
> This could be bug #660 (which was fixed post 3.0.1.
>
>
>
> - --
> cheers, jerry
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