Thanks John, You not only gave me the solution and identified the problem, you also showed me a great tool for handling Cups which I was not aware of. Thanks to others for their suggestions. Sorry I forgot to mention I am using cups and that the printer was accidentally switched off during a print job. Regards Dave

-----Original Message----- From: jdl [mailto:jdl]On Behalf Of John Lamb Sent: Sunday, 20 January 2002 19:39 To: Dave Barton Subject: Re: [SLE] Print Queue Locked Up

If you're using cups, try using kups (system > tools > CUPS administration tools) or http://localhost:631/ to restart the printer. Cups sometimes stops if there is an error, for example, shutting the computer down during a print job. JDL

Dave Barton wrote:

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Somehow I have succeeded in locking up the print queue

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pending. I have tried clearing the queue with lprm and

with 10 jobs the KDE Print

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Queue utility, but nothing works. Can somebody tell me how to resolve this problem.

TIA Dave