Re: Printer: raw@<hostname> - ERROR: spool queue for 'raw' does

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

On 06-Mar-02 Camille Dominique wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Probably since an upgrade of lprng (I think 3.8.2 to 3.8.4, on debian
> linux, woody), printing has for some reason stopped working.
> I had apsfilter 7.2.1 before (worked perfectly, and took the problem as
> an opportunity to upgrade to apsfilter 7.2.2. I followed the steps to 
> generate a new printcap through apsfilter's SETUP, and managed to print
> out the test page successfully.
> 
> now, (after having restarted lprng, of course), when I do a 'lpq -a',
> this is what I get:
> 
>   Printer: lp - cannot get status from device '<NULL>'

This is indeed an LPRng bug; was fixed in 3.8.5 or 3.8.6.

Michael