Some weird printer problems

[David Aikema]

On June 14, 2002 05:45 pm, Anita Lewis wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  I managed to get back into my linux installation with your 
suggestion.

Surprisingly, when I then started up lpd once I had logged in it didn't freeze 
(However printing is still out of commission).

Here's the last few lines of /var/log/messages if anyone can notice anything 
wrong:
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Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: 0x3bc: FIFO is 16 bytes
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: 0x3bc: writeIntrThreshold is 16
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: 0x3bc: readIntrThreshold is 16
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: 0x3bc: PWord is 8 bits
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: 0x3bc: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: 0x3bc: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x40
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: 0x3bc: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other 
means> dma=<none or set by other means>
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc (0x7bc) 
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 21:05:16 david kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
---

cat'ing /proc/interrupts though has nothing visible for irq 7 though:
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           CPU0
  0:      66543          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       3792          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  5:      16177          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, C-Media PCI
  8:          2          XT-PIC  rtc
 11:       3006          XT-PIC  eth0
 12:      22448          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:       9450          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         10          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
LOC:          0
ERR:          0
MIS:          0
---

David Aikema