All.. I've recently installed SuSE 8.2 on a number of machines & love it. However, on an IBM Thinkpad 20, I'm seeing a behaviour I've never seen before. I'm trying to update KDE to 3.1.2 (by hand, using rpm -hvU), and rpm keeps hanging. It goes through the install "motions", draws the hash accross the screen, then hangs in what I'd have to guess is the post-install. It's not just a single RPM that's causing this problem; it seems to be doing it on all of them. rpm is using 100% of the CPU, and gdb seems completely confused about it's image. I've done an 'rpm --rebuild' to verify that my database is ok, I've rebooted in case there's some kind of file left open, etc., but nothing seems to solve this problem. Has anybody else every seen this? FWIW, rpm -q rpm shows rpm-3.0.6-470, and rpm --verify rpm seems happy. Also, according to 'ps', rpm doesn't have any child processes running at the time; it's rpm itself that's, I imagine, stuck in a loop somewhere. I'd appreciate any help that anybody can offer. Thanks -Nick
Hi friends, this is my first post to this forum ... I'll glad to help ... (if I can do that). I've a parallel printer attached to a Compaq ML350 box running SuSE Professional 8.0 The printer works fine, but the printing speed is the half of the regular speed. If I connect the same printer to other compaq (same model, same configuration, same cable) it prints a normal speed, but if I connect back to the Linux box its slow downs to the half of speed. The printer is a Printonix using no driver (raw, generic text), I tryied no printing spool (doing a >/dev/lp0), lpr (BSD) and cups; all of them with the same results. I saw an article at SCO's knowledge center where the SCO Uniware's 7 have the same problem due a Compaq's parallel port construction. I don't have any dmesgs or port conflicts; the Compaq's BIOS only have three options (LPT1, LPT3 and disabled) ... the printer works fine, only at half speed. Any ideas? Thanks, Jean H//
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 11:24 am, Jean Hendrickx wrote:
Hi friends, this is my first post to this forum ... I'll glad to help ... (if I can do that). I've a parallel printer attached to a Compaq ML350 box running SuSE Professional 8.0
The printer works fine, but the printing speed is the half of the regular speed. If I connect the same printer to other compaq (same model, same configuration, same cable) it prints a normal speed, but if I connect back to the Linux box its slow downs to the half of speed.
The printer is a Printonix using no driver (raw, generic text), I tryied no printing spool (doing a >/dev/lp0), lpr (BSD) and cups; all of them with the same results.
I saw an article at SCO's knowledge center where the SCO Uniware's 7 have the same problem due a Compaq's parallel port construction.
I don't have any dmesgs or port conflicts; the Compaq's BIOS only have three options (LPT1, LPT3 and disabled) ... the printer works fine, only at half speed.
Just a long shot, but perhaps you need to turn on lpt interrupts. Use tunelp to do this, probably "tunelp -i 7". -Nick
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 11:33 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 11:24 am, Jean Hendrickx wrote:
Hi friends, this is my first post to this forum ... I'll glad to help ... (if I can do that). I've a parallel printer attached to a Compaq ML350 box running SuSE Professional 8.0
The printer works fine, but the printing speed is the half of the regular speed. If I connect the same printer to other compaq (same model, same configuration, same cable) it prints a normal speed, but if I connect back to the Linux box its slow downs to the half of speed.
The printer is a Printonix using no driver (raw, generic text), I tryied no printing spool (doing a >/dev/lp0), lpr (BSD) and cups; all of them with the same results.
I saw an article at SCO's knowledge center where the SCO Uniware's 7 have the same problem due a Compaq's parallel port construction.
I don't have any dmesgs or port conflicts; the Compaq's BIOS only have three options (LPT1, LPT3 and disabled) ... the printer works fine, only at half speed.
Just a long shot, but perhaps you need to turn on lpt interrupts. Use tunelp to do this, probably "tunelp -i 7".
Oops.. make that "tunelp /dev/lp0 -i 7" -Nick
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 10:38 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
All..
I've recently installed SuSE 8.2 on a number of machines & love it.
However, on an IBM Thinkpad 20, I'm seeing a behaviour I've never seen before. I'm trying to update KDE to 3.1.2 (by hand, using rpm -hvU), and rpm keeps hanging. It goes through the install "motions", draws the hash accross the screen, then hangs in what I'd have to guess is the post-install. It's not just a single RPM that's causing this problem; it seems to be doing it on all of them. rpm is using 100% of the CPU, and gdb seems completely confused about it's image. I've done an 'rpm --rebuild' to verify that my database is ok, I've rebooted in case there's some kind of file left open, etc., but nothing seems to solve this problem. Has anybody else every seen this?
FWIW, rpm -q rpm shows rpm-3.0.6-470, and rpm --verify rpm seems happy.
Also, according to 'ps', rpm doesn't have any child processes running at the time; it's rpm itself that's, I imagine, stuck in a loop somewhere.
I'd appreciate any help that anybody can offer.
Update. Somehow, after rebooting, a second rpm --rebuilddb seems to have cured the problem. I'm baffled, but just happy that it's working again. -Nick
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