[Samba] Printing Errors in log since installing 3.0.9

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Dec 8 13:48:04 GMT 2004


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Vickie L. Kidder wrote:
| Since installing Samba 3.0.9, I am getting the following errors in my
| samba log file related to printing.
| I haven't made any changes to the smb.conf file from 3.0.7 where printing
| worked fine.
|
| This is a sample of the errors from the samba log file.
| [2004/12/06 15:45:55, 0] printing/printing_db.c:get_print_db_byname(109)
|   get_print_db: Failed to open printer backend database
| /usr/local/samba/var/locks/printing/hpl4_smb.tdb.
| [2004/12/06 15:45:55, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36)
|   ===============================================================
| [2004/12/06 15:45:55, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37)
|   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 9038 (3.0.9)
|   Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection
| [2004/12/06 15:45:55, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
|   ===============================================================

Can you try the patch at

http://samba.org/~jerry/patches/post-3.0.9/printing-3-0-9.patch

?  Thanks.

|      security = user
|      encrypt passwords = yes
|
|    ; Global Settings for Printers
|      printing = aix
|      load printers = yes
|      printcap name = /etc/printcap
|      printer admin = vlkidder, kalagan, lbbell
|      print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p -h -r %s
|      lpq cache time = 0

You really don't want to set that to 0.  Trust me.
It will cause an unecessary load on the server.






cheers, jerry
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