cancel printing will not stop printing
Hi, I cancelled a large print job (300 pages) and it will not stop printing.. I unhook the printer power and parallel port and it still wont do it? Is restarting the computer my only option? thanks henry
On Tuesday, 17 of August 2004 19:29, Henry Tang wrote:
Hi,
I cancelled a large print job (300 pages) and it will not stop printing.. I unhook the printer power and parallel port and it still wont do it? Is restarting the computer my only option?
lpq - for checking jobs lprm - for removing -- Marek Chlopek
Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 of August 2004 19:29, Henry Tang wrote:
Hi,
I cancelled a large print job (300 pages) and it will not stop printing.. I unhook the printer power and parallel port and it still wont do it? Is restarting the computer my only option?
lpq - for checking jobs lprm - for removing
I didn't use lprm to cancel the job but used cancel instead.. I did lpq and nothing in queue.. henry
* Henry Tang
I didn't use lprm to cancel the job but used cancel instead.. I did lpq and nothing in queue..
Probably still in cup's queue. Try as root: rccups restart -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
The Tuesday 2004-08-17 at 12:29 -0500, Henry Tang wrote:
I cancelled a large print job (300 pages) and it will not stop printing.. I unhook the printer power and parallel port and it still wont do it? Is restarting the computer my only option?
Known problem - and quite old:
| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:44:35 +0100 (CET)
| From: Carlos E. R.
| Subject: Can not cancel print jobs
| X-Message-Number-for-archive: 134837
But it was not solved at the time. The solution is on this other thread:
| Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:39:55 +0100 (CET)
| From: Carlos E. R.
| Subject: Stopping print jobs.
| X-Message-Number-for-archive: 172869
The problem is that removing the print job, and even stopping cups (rccups
stop) does not stop the task "parallel:/dev/lp0" that is spooling the job
to the printer port. You have got to kill it, as root, with signal 9.
The good news is that this has another solution to avoid it happening the
next time, and it seems to be a question of permissions that I can not
pinpoint well. You have to modify the cups configuration so that it
requests your password before it allows you to remove a job. I have:
Hello, On Aug 17 12:29 Henry Tang wrote (shortened):
I cancelled a large print job (300 pages) and it will not stop printing.. I unhook the printer power and parallel port and it still wont do it? Is restarting the computer my only option?
See the manual (in particular note the "fuser" stuff). Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX AG, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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