Some weird printer problems

[Anita Lewis]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:51:48 -0700, davidaikema at shaw.ca wrote:
> Somehow I now find myself unable to print.  Whenever I try to startup my
> system and load linux, something causes it to hang when attempting to
> load lpd (the printer is now also inoperable in windows it seems) which
> would seem to me to suggest a hardware problem.
> 
> Has anyone had anything similar to this happen to them before?
> 
> I guess I'll need to attempt to bypass lpd startup somehow to get the
> system to boot.  Which runlevel should I be attempting to start the
> machine at to do this?
> 
> David Aikema
> 

Starting in runlevel 1 should do it.  Then you can temporarily change the
name of S20lpd to offS20lpd in whatever rc#.d is the one that is used when
you normally boot.  That would keep /etc/init.d/lpd from running when you
boot.  When you get it fixed (testing with /etc/init.d/lpd start) you can
change the name back to what it was so that it will again run at boot time. 
It's really just a link, but I don't usually delete them, because I feel I
might forget what number it is and mess up the order of when it starts.


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Anita
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