Print Server: lpd crash

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I’m new to Panther Server and have recently encountered a problem with printing. On my OSXS box, I have Print Service running with three different queues: an HP 2200, an HP 2100 and an HP CLJ 8550, connected via the office LAN. All three printers have IP addresses (10.0.1.x range) and are being shared via LPD and SMB.

All was working great until a few days ago, when jobs sent to the HP 2200 suddenly wouldn’t print. When I checked the log for the queue under Printer Service, I found no trace of the sent print job (normally, they appear as “submitted” and again as “finished”). I then checked the system log and found the following entries:

“localhost crashdump: Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 2916 name: lpd
localhost crashdump: Started writing crash report to : /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/lpd.crash.log
localhost crashdump: Finished writing crash report to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/lpd.crash.log”

It generates this error for every print job I attempt to send to that printer, no matter which computer I send from. I tried shutting down Print Service, deleting and re-adding the queue, then restarting Print Service, but that proved ineffective. I did the usual repair permissions through Disk Utility, rebooted the machine a few times, and even tried used Print Setup Repair to repair CUPS permissions and such, but nothing helped.

The crash log is essentially useless to me because I can’t understand half of what it’s saying. This is where an expert would step in and rescue my poor ass. 🙂

Any ideas? Has anyone experienced this problem before? Am I missing something simple?

Thanks in advance.

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