[ale] the printer job that wouldn't die

[Dow_Hurst]

For CUPs,
man cancel
man lpstat

lpstat -t
will give the full listing of all printers and current jobs.  Pick the one you want canceled and use the cancel command to get rid of it.

You should turn off the printer, wait a bit, and turn it back on to clear it's internal memory.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Philips <jimmyc at speedfactory.net>
Sent: Dec 10, 2004 10:02 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] the printer job that wouldn't die

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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