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 1F9f54-0002U0-Hh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:05:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1G9457N031336; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:04:05 GMT Received: from priv-edmwes48.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [204.209.205.55]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1G8xePM027190 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:59:40 GMT Received: from zebedee ([154.20.66.11]) by priv-edmwes48.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060216085939.KSQM14749.priv-edmwes48.telusplanet.net@zebedee> for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:59:39 -0700 From: Robert Persson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:00:05 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602152356.53465.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> <200602161018.11256.uwix@iway.na> In-Reply-To: <200602161018.11256.uwix@iway.na> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602160100.05482.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 227af1d7-2cc5-4607-b973-a3213c10aaff X-Archives-Hash: 3482da17617ec0db655b1a6f1fd9bd46 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... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list