Re: Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system

From: P.U.Kruppa <ulrich_at_pukruppa.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:51:19 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, P.U.Kruppa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use a HP Deskjet 990 Cxi via parallel port with cups and hpijs driver on
>
> FreeBSD pukruppa.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Sep 21 16:52:59 
> CEST 2007 amd64
>
> When I try to print a little bit more complex documents (OpenOffice, pdf) my 
> System will crash.
>
> On my root terminal there will be a long list of
> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
> lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
> [...]
> lines, then some dumping activity and a reboot.
>
> I upgraded to 7.0 last week, so all I can say is: everything was fine with 
> 6.2 .
>
> Please tell me if you need more information.
By the way: in the meantime I have found a workaround:
I can run my printer via usb port (that didn't work when I tried 
it 3 or 4 years ago).

Regards,

Uli.



Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany
Received on Mon Sep 24 2007 - 05:51:22 UTC

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