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
