169923 - [ps] after some time, print command stops working

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[Bill Shannon]

After some time, and many succesful prints, printing stops working,
complaining that there was an error sending commands to the printer.
As far as I can tell, it's not even invoking my print command when
it gets the error.

This is with Mozilla 1.1 on Solaris 8.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Reporter:
What is the _exact_ message returned by Mozilla ?

Comment 2

[Bill Shannon]

The exact message is:

There was a problem printing.  An instruction that was sent to the printer failed.

This just happened while using the default print command.

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

Per mozilla/html/base/src/printing.properties this maps to the error code
|NS_ERROR_GFX_PRINTER_CMD_FAILURE| - which is used four times in
mozilla/gfx/src/ps/nsPostScriptObj.cpp (see
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ident?i=NS_ERROR_GFX_PRINTER_CMD_FAILURE).

Reporter:
Can you check whether a similar problem (e.g. can't print after printing
multiple times) occurs with the Xprint module, too ?

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter:
Can you check whether a similar problem (e.g. can't print after printing
multiple times) occurs with the Xprint module, too?

Comment 5

[Bill Shannon]

I don't use Xprint, and since setup seems far from obvious, I'm not very
interested in trying it.

However, I haven't seen this problem in quite some time.  I believe it was
due to running out of file descriptors.  I think some other fix solved the
file descriptor bug, and I haven't seen this bug since then.

As far as I'm concerned, you can close this bug report.

Comment 6

[Kenneth Herron]

Resolving per the previous comment. If anyone can reproduce this with a current
software release, please feel free to reopen it.