Subject: Re: Crash: NetBSD-1.4S
To: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/03/2000 12:35:48
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> I am running NetBSD-1.4S on a ASUS-P3B-F/Celeron 466 System and
> when printing, the system will usually reboot on the second attempt.
> The strange thing is, the print job gets completed.
> 
> The sequence is as followed:
> 
> 	lpr /etc/printcap
> 	can't create /var/spool/lpd/<spool_file_name>
> 	lpr /etc/printcap
> 	reboot after print queue is emptied, the printout is ok..

Just a thought: can it have something to do with printcap changing the
spool directory from /var/spool/output/lpd to /var/spool/lpd recently?

(No idea how to debug though..)

Cheers,

Patrick