No matter what I try the printer keeps trying to p[rint a file that is not there... In the KDE desktop I open the print manger and there is nothing there. I go to a shell and type: lpc status - and rec message "no entries" but still it is trying to print something. I type: lprm - and it asks for my password --- again and again or go to su and type" lprm - and I get no response, just back to the prompt. as su I type: lprm winstephen - I get "job or printer not found" and still the printer is cranking away... I turn off the printer and it starts again. I reboot the computer and it starts again... !@#$%^&*() any suggestions of what I do next? Stephen ===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
On Monday 26 January 2004 05:59 pm, Stephen W wrote:
No matter what I try the printer keeps trying to p[rint a file that is not there...
In the KDE desktop I open the print manger and there is nothing there. [...] any suggestions of what I do next?
Stephen =============
Stephen, Try this: Turn off the printer and open a shell/konsole su (to root) type: rccupsd stop (this stops cups) wait a few seconds to let everything clear turn printer back on to see if it is still printing and if not, you are half way there. If it continues to print, then it's not because of your Linux, check your printer. now type: rccupsd start (this restarts cups) If no print out, you just had a glitch or printer memory full of data, but if it begins the printing again, you need to clean out your spool. Go to /var/spool/cups, after again doing "rccupsd stop" and turning off the printer again to clear it's memory. Once the spool is clear, restart cups with "rccupsd start" and turn your printer on. Hopefully that will clear you up and everything will return to normal. Sometimes a print file runs amuck like this, don't know why, but it seldom, if ever, happens. Be sure to let us know. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
The Monday 2004-01-26 at 14:59 -0800, Stephen W wrote:
I turn off the printer and it starts again. I reboot the computer and it starts again...
!@#$%^&*()
any suggestions of what I do next?
Known thing... I reported it here a month ago: |Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 03:09:51 +0100 (CET) |From: Carlos E. R. |Subject: Re: [SLE] Stopping print jobs - second report Read the thread for full details. Basically, if you do a "ps afx|less" after stopping the job with lprm, you see something like this: |> 3592 ? S 0:07 /usr/sbin/cupsd -c /etc/cups/cupsd.conf |> 3672 ? S 0:02 \_ parallel:/dev/lp0 335 cer (stdin) 1 The task named "parallel" has to be manually killed with signal 9 for printing to actually stop. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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