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 1F9eoO-0007NX-KM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:48:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1G8lOp4000479; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:47:24 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1G8hObs015299 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:43:28 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IURUWB02.UG3 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:43:23 +0200 Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071551AE0E for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:43:23 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.202]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IURUWA01.034 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:43:22 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F9eL5-000717-AE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:18:11 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:18:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602152356.53465.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200602152356.53465.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> 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: <200602161018.11256.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: 56ed251e-f4a7-4b2c-9bf8-30d035a0517d X-Archives-Hash: 517aa8f31efbee611bb651cf8b1e459c 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 -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list