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 1F9e5u-0007lg-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:02:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1G80saW032696; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:00:54 GMT Received: from priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1G7uSiO020275 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:56:28 GMT Received: from zebedee ([154.20.66.11]) by priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060216075627.GJJK3443.priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net@zebedee> for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:56:27 -0700 From: Robert Persson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:56:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602152356.53465.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: de119ac4-d2f4-44b8-b2fe-169d0065a114 X-Archives-Hash: 6324b936934f3ed8460de1ac73bdd868 My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. Tried to rmmod parport_pc and lp, but was refused. Tried pressing the stop and reset buttons on the printer many times. Nothing doing. The only thing that stops the flow is disconnecting the parallel cable. 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? -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list