[gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[Robert Persson]

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?
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Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[Uwe Thiem]

On 16 February 2006 09:56, Robert Persson wrote:
> 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.

One of the very few shortcomings of cups is that it is very hard to delete an 
active print job. :-(

>
> 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.

Uwe 

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Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[Robert Persson]

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[William Kenworthy]

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.
> 
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> 
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RE: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Kenworthy [mailto:billk@iinet.net.au] 
> Sent: 16 February 2006 12:07
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking
> 
> 
> 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 ...

As a rule I delete unwanted jobs from the localhost:631 gui.  Only when
I forcefully shut Cups down, or switch off the printer *without*
deleting the previously submitted jobs using the gui I get problems
similar to what you describe.
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Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[Robert Persson]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 04:06 William Kenworthy was like:
> 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 ...

When I shut down cupsd the printer continued spewing. Also, when I rebooted, 
the printing didn't start up again. I don't understand how this could be a 
cups problem in that case.

:-) robert

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