Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Still having problems with lat and printing

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:48:53AM -0400, Mat...@Ke... wrote:
> I moved up to red hat 7.3, lat 1.15 and decnet 2.19 with a fresh install of
> everything.
> 
> LAT and Decnet seem to work fine (llogin, moprc, dnping, sethost,...)
> I have an LP27 on a decserver 250 called LAT25.
> I have a service on LAT25 called LP27 assigned to the printer port (port 5)
> with the queued attribute.
> I created a lat device in the latcp.conf with:
>      latcp -A -p /dev/lat/lta2505 -VLP27 -RPORT_5 -H LAT25 -Q -8
> I created a printer with /dev/lat/lta2505 as the device
> 
> When I try to print a plain text file, or cat or echo text to
> /dev/lat/lta2505, the latd dies.  Sometimes it prints a portion of the text
> (first 20 lines or so.)  What is the best way to find out why latd is
> dying?

If latd is dying that's pretty nasty. Can you compile it with debug enabled
(  DEFS+=-DVERBOSE_DEBUG -DNO_FORK -DDEBUG_MALLOC in the Makefile ) and send me
the output.

It also may be helpful to get a core dump and send me a backtrace from it, if
you know how to do that.

What you you using for printing (lpr, lprng, cups) ?

patrick