From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9i0N-0001gg-2v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:13:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GCC1gb014561; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:12:01 GMT Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GC70Q2020580 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:07:02 GMT Received: from 203-166-251-85.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.166.251.85]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 16 Feb 2006 20:06:58 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.02,119,1139155200"; d="scan'208"; a="352403602:sNHT1101007848" Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B481B90D9 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:06:56 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02178-06 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:06:55 +0800 (WST) Received: from rattus (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425411733E0 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:06:55 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200602160100.05482.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> References: <200602152356.53465.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> <200602161018.11256.uwix@iway.na> <200602160100.05482.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home! Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:06:54 +0800 Message-Id: <1140091614.16391.1.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain X-Archives-Salt: 0d67b87e-5a69-4bd5-a173-7c3e10cb7e48 X-Archives-Hash: 847fe22749b3cd88dcd651c6d6a5749d At times you also have to go to the cups cache directory and delete the print job there as well, as on restart it stats the printjob from the beginning again. They really need to fix this ... BillK On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 01:00 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 00:18 Uwe Thiem was like: > > > I'm about to reboot, hoping that that will do the trick. But surely > > > there's a way to stop the diarrhoea without rebooting, isn't there? > > > > Don't, it won't help. Do a "ps ax | less" and try to find everything > > remotely related to printing and converting. Kill all those processes - > > there will be several. > > Thanks! That worked. > > -- > Robert Persson > > Conspiracy Bears: > Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... > -- William Kenworthy Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list