Well, my printer's on fire..

NSKL · 10-05-2003, 12:25 PM

Well, what do you know, after printing a couple of pages today, with my Epson styllus color 900, it refused to print anymore. Linux kernel, being helpful like always, kindly pointed out in /var/log/messages.
"Oct 5 19:18:03 Slackbox kernel: lp0 on fire"
Very, very nice huh...
-NSKL

Stack · 10-05-2003, 01:07 PM

yes that is a legacy error from the days of unix when printers did burst on fire

now a days it just means you are getting unrecognized errors

wapcaplet · 10-05-2003, 01:11 PM

Gotta love UNIX programmer humor

I think what the error means is that something went wrong, and the program doesn't know what. I found this post which offers a brief explanation.

And no, I don't think printers ever really did burst into flames. It's just a joke; always has been.

Stack · 10-05-2003, 01:37 PM

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And no, I don't think printers ever really did burst into flames.

actually some did... hell you still get recall now a days for printers that pose a fire risk...