[Samba] Problem with pdf printing (SOLVED)

[Vincent Mikalinis]

Hi all,

Has anyone figured out why some people are not having a problem with
similar configurations, however some people require that we add the "lpq
command = /bin/true" line?  It is a very good and simple solution. 
Should all pdf printers be set with this option for future reference?


Urs Rau wrote:

>>I start to wonder what "dammage" it would do to set lpq to
>>lpq command =/bin/true
>>for my pdf printer? ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> Well, wonder no more sir!!!!!!  I set my lpq command = /bin/true 
and
> ALL QUEUES CLEAR AND ACT PROPERLY!!!!!!!!!!!!  I could kiss you!  

That was all I did,  I can't believe it worked......thank you!!!!!!
> 

I am glad it helped. Thanks for doing the testing for me. ;-) Actually
I 
can't really take full credit for this idea as it was one of my 
colleagues Matt that had suggested doing just that with my pdf
problems, 
minutes before I saw your post, in order to avoid the cups printer not

found msgs I got with my "proper" lpq command line.

> printer share's are configured for each department : (preprintpdf is
> just a sepaerate file so I could quickly set the pdf size , etc.)
> 
> [IT pdf printer]
>   printer admin = "NEWYORK+domain users"
>   force printername = yes
>   browseable = yes
>   path = /pdfdropbox/IT
>   printable = yes
>   print command = /usr/bin/preprintpdf %s
>   lpq command = /bin/true
>   lprm command =



















Hello, 
I'm hoping someone can help me.  I have several pdf printers set up and
when I print to them samba becomes unstable and several errors are
dumped to the log.  These pdf printers were working when I was using
version 3.0.6.  When I went to a newer version of samba the queue would
not clear on the windows side and no errors were logged.  Yesterday I
upgraded to version 3.0.13-1 and the errors started and the queue still
will not clear.  I have deleted several tdb files to no avail.  I am
using "printing = bsd" option as I have in the past.  Below is a clip
from the log. Please let me know if anyone needs more information.

[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 1409 ltype=0 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 0 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 295 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 4128 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 3445 ltype=0 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 4128 ltype=0 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 3445 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 1717 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 480 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0]
printing/printing.c:print_queue_update_internal(1195)
  print_queue_update: failed to store MSG_PENDING flag for [IT pdf
printer]!
[2005/03/29 10:49:03, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/printing/IT pdf printer.tdb): tdb_lock failed on
list 1321 ltype=1 (Bad file descriptor)
[2005/03/29 10:49:05, 0]
printing/printing_db.c:get_print_db_byname(66)
  get_print_db: Failed to close tdb for printer IT pdf printer
[2005/03/29 10:49:11, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(642)
  bmg2001 (192.168.42.106) connect to service public initially as user
NEWYORK+deborahp (uid=10008, gid=10011) (pid 23475)
[2005/03/29 10:50:04, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36)
  ===============================================================
[2005/03/29 10:50:04, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37)
  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 23459 (3.0.13)
  Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection
[2005/03/29 10:50:04, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
  ===============================================================
[2005/03/29 10:50:04, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1495)
  PANIC: internal error
[2005/03/29 10:50:04, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1503)
  BACKTRACE: 14 stack frames:
   #0 smbd(smb_panic2+0x128) [0x81df9d8]
   #1 smbd(smb_panic+0x19) [0x81df8a9]
   #2 smbd [0x81cd252]
   #3 /lib/tls/libc.so.6 [0x420277b8]
   #4 smbd(tdb_fetch_int32_byblob+0x45) [0x81f4f75]
   #5 smbd(tdb_fetch_int32+0x28) [0x81f4fe8]
   #6 smbd [0x81fb637]
   #7 smbd [0x81fbe51]
   #8 smbd [0x81fc06e]
   #9 smbd(message_dispatch+0x13c) [0x81e823c]
   #10 smbd(start_background_queue+0x1cd) [0x81fc28d]
   #11 smbd(main+0x68b) [0x8257abb]
   #12 /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe4) [0x42015704]
   #13 smbd(ldap_msgfree+0x89) [0x80792a1]