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From: ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x
Subject: Printtool in Openwindows 2 hangs
Keywords: SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun3/50
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.101618.19319@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 30 Jan 91 10:16:18 GMT
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia.
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Hi netters,

I was wondering if anyone had come across the following.  I am trying to get
printtool to work on my 3/50.  Whenever I run it, it hangs in a non-killable
mode.  I am able to print etc fine from the machine, it is only printtool that
dies.  I have done a trace of the run, the end of which follows ;

getpid () = 277
open ("/etc/printcap", 0, 0666) = 4
ioctl (4, 0x40125401, 0xdfff94c) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
fstat (4, 0xdfff980) = 0
brk (0x36334) = 0
read (4, "lp|local line printer on UQVAX:\".., 8192) = 1303

This is where it hangs, on the first line of /etc/printcap (I have removed all
comments from the file.  I have also noticed that things have gotten a lot
slower.  I imagine the 3 zombie processes I now have running are going beserk.

Any help appreciated.  If no-one has encountered this before, I will report
it to sun and see if they have a fix.

ant