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lp lpstat : LP print services isn't running or can't be reached

Hi,

After last weekend's server reboot, our Solaris 8 server's print service is no more
working (have been working fine all these while).  I'm not aware of any change & I
can see that "printer" service is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf :

grep -i printer /etc/inetd.conf
printer         stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/lib/print/in.lpd   in.lpd

I've done "pkill -HUP inetd"  to refresh the inetd but it did not help.

Error messages appended :

# lpstat slacdhp1
UX:lpstat: ERROR: The LP print service isn't running or can't be
                  reached.
          TO FIX: Your request can't be completely handled
                  without the LP print service. If this
                  problem continues, get help from your
                  system administrator.

# lp -d  slacdhp1 /etc/hosts
UX:lp: ERROR: Can't establish contact with the LP print service.
      TO FIX: Either the LP print service has stopped,
              or all message channels are busy. If the
              problem continues, get help from your
              system administrator.
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a) there are 2 lines (thought it should be one listening process only)
>netstat -an | grep 515 | grep -i listen
      *.515                *.*                0      0 24576      0 LISTEN
      *.515                             *.*                             0      0 24576      0 LISTEN


b) /var/adm/messages has several queue related messages :
Nov 20 06:45:01 slasun02 ntpdate[21236]: [ID 774510 daemon.notice] step time server 10.51.1.9 offset 0.585674 sec
Nov 20 06:50:00 slasun02 sendmail[21377]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA-I
Pv4: cannot bind: Address already in use
Nov 20 06:50:00 slasun02 sendmail[21377]: [ID 702911 mail.alert] daemon MTA-IPv4: problem creating SMTP socket
Nov 20 06:50:05 slasun02 sendmail[21377]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA-I
Pv4: cannot bind: Address already in use
Nov 20 06:50:05 slasun02 sendmail[21377]: [ID 702911 mail.alert] daemon MTA-IPv4: problem creating SMTP socket
Nov 20 06:50:10 slasun02 sendmail[21377]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA-I
Pv4: cannot bind: Address already in use
Nov 20 06:50:10 slasun02 sendmail[21377]: [ID 702911 mail.alert] daemon MTA-IPv4: problem creating SMTP socket
Nov 20 06:50:15 slasun02 sendmail[21377]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA-I
Pv4: cannot bind: Address already in use

c) I've issued the commands (in case faled is a typo, I've used 'failed' as well) & attached outputs :
truss -o /tmp/lpfaled.txt -faled lpstat
truss -o /tmp/lpfailed.txt -failed lpstat


lpfaled.txt
lpfailed.txt
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So, I restart lpsched  just by typing "lpsched"?

This is what I get now :
# lpstat -a
dvsy01 accepting requests since Thu Apr 19 09:15:31 2007
sds1_hp1 accepting requests since Tue Sep 28 11:50:23 2004

# lp -d slacdhp1 dailyback.18112008
request id is slacdhp1-25386 (1 file(s))

Printing now, thanks a lot