[ale] the printer job that wouldn't die
Jim Philips
jimmyc at speedfactory.net
Fri Dec 10 10:06:59 EST 2004
I am running CUPS on KDE. This isn't the first time this has happened to me. I
start a print job and something goes wrong. The printer starts spitting out
pages with a single line of characters and nothing else. If I try to kill the
job, there doesn't seem to be anything to kill. I can stop the printer. But
when it starts again, the pages start spitting out the same way. If I type
lprm as root, I get:
lprm: Unable to cancel job(s)!
If I try lpq, it doesn't report any jobs in the queue, so there is nothing I
can kill. I tried killing cupsd. When it starts again, the pages start
spitting out again. The only thing I know to do is to remove the printer and
reinstall it. Is there any way I can just find this job and kill it?
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