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2.0 upgrade breaks lpd?



Hi,

I finally decided to upgrade my machine from the ancient 1.2.13 kernel it
was running to the latest and greatest 2.0.12.

I downloaded all the required packages, read, compiled and installed for
about half a day and finally (so I thought) all worked well.

Several hours later I discovered that the print system (which has been
working fine for about 10 month) was behaving in a very strange manner:

- Plain text print jobs are queued and printed OK.

- Postscript (and perhaps other stuff) takes hours to be spooled, and
sometimes doesn't work at all. The jobs are seen by lpq, an lpd is
spawned, and the spool files are created. For example, trying to print
through netscape causes netscape to load the cpu to about 30% but no
output is produced on the printer.

I tried to play with the printcap file based on the Printing-HOWTO, but to
no avail.

I'm using 2 apple PS printers, accessed throught LAN.

Here are the entries in the printcap file:

Apple|[LaserWriter_16_600_PS]:\
        :lp=:mx#0:rm=aplaser:\
        :rp=text:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/apple:\
        :of=/usr/spool/apple/applep:
        :lf=/usr/spool/apple/apple-log:


Apple3|[LaserWriter_16_600_PS]:\	
	:lp=/dev/null:sh:\
	:rm=aplaser3:\
	:rp=raw:\
	:sd=/var/spool/apple3:\
	:of=/usr/spool/apple/applep:\
	:lf=/var/spool/apple3/apple-log: 

The setup for the first computer is the one I've been using so far. The
second one is after some changes I made. I also tried to remove some of the
fields, e.g. the output filter field, but the behavior is consistent.

Any suggestions???

TIA,

Gilad Gam