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: