Re: HELP! MY PRINTER\'S ON FIRE!!
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:26:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELP! When I printed debian said my printer\'s on fire but upon inspection I can\'t find any signs of fire on or in my printer, I fear that if I don\'t find the fire soon my printer may die. PLEASE HELP!!! Its a generic error message. LPD can't figure out what's wrong but things aren't working. For all it knows, your printer is on fire. You'll need to give us some more info to help you: What spooler do you use: LPD, LPRng, CUPS What kind of printer with what kind of interface. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 22:21:41 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost synchronization with the computer for a moment, and gone back to printing in text mode, while the computer is sending graphics. Turn off the printer, and cancel any print jobs, then when the jobs are gone, turn the printer back on. You might look into lpq and cancel. If you really get stuck, and it still prints after you have cleared lpq and emptied /var/spool/cups/, then go into the web interface to CUPS, delete the printer and install it afresh. The new instance will start with an empty queue. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On 01/11/2006 09:16:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop 1) Unplug printer. This should clear it's memory, which can contain pages and pages of smiley faces. 2) Use lpq in a terminal window to get the job numbers of your print jobs. (Line Printer Queue) 3) Use lprm followed by the job number to cancel the jobs you don't want. Be root if necessary, but it probably won't be. (Line Printer ReMove) Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It
keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop
The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost synchronization
with the computer for a moment, and gone back to printing in text
mode, while the computer is sending graphics. Turn off the printer,
and cancel any print jobs, then when the jobs are gone, turn the
printer back on.
You might look into lpq and cancel.
Mike
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Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 22:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop I think someone is playing with your head, and that you need to study up on /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and howto restrict access. In the meantime I'd shut it off to conserve paper and ink. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:52:33PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: You could try: $ ps aux | grep lpr which will list the process ID the kill the process, as root or sudo, with: # kill -9 ProcessID (the number) Or, even simpler: pkill lpr Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
This was the solution. Many thanks to all of you responding!! Cheers Vegard Hi Vegard Sam Watkins suggested: you can use the programs lpq and lprm to show the printer queue and remove jobs from it respectively. Look at the man pages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:09:02PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: every time I start my PC the printer start again. you can use the programs lpq and lprm to show the printer queue and remove jobs from it respectively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) I tried deleting the printer with 'localhost:631' and 'apt-get --purge remove cupsys', yet every time I start my PC the printer start again. Help! What can I do? Hi Vegard Sam Watkins suggested: you can use the programs lpq and lprm to show the printer queue and remove jobs from it respectively. Look at the man pages You could try: $ ps aux | grep lpr which will list the process ID the kill the process, as root or sudo, with: # kill -9 ProcessID (the number) HTH Clive This is the output of the command $ ps aux | grep lpr hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684 pts/1R+ 18:03 0:00 grep lpr hjem:~# Is this the orinterjob I want to cancel, and what is the ProcessID? No. This is the grep process you just ran. The Process ID is 1470. So it would appear that lpr is not running. Sam's suggestion looks like the best option. FWIW, if you install cups it will give you access to manage the print queue via a webinterface. To install cups look at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/ You won't need samba and smb.client unless you're sharing printers with windows PCs. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]
Quoting Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: This is the output of the command $ ps aux | grep lpr hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684 pts/1R+ 18:03 0:00 grep lpr hjem:~# Is this the orinterjob I want to cancel, and what is the ProcessID? No. This is the grep process you just ran. The Process ID is 1470. So it would appear that lpr is not running. A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For example: ps aux | grep [l]pr This still lists all the processes that contain the string lpr, but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. -Roberto Sanchez This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For example: ps aux | grep [l]pr This still lists all the processes that contain the string lpr, but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one character exactly the same as the character by itself? Am I missing something blindingly obvious? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]
Quoting Michael Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For example: ps aux | grep [l]pr This still lists all the processes that contain the string lpr, but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one character exactly the same as the character by itself? Am I missing something blindingly obvious? :) As you point out, the brackets with one character amount to a range of one character. The [l]pr regexp is intrepreted as lpr, but the grep command show up in ps as grep [l]pr. This prevents grep from matching its own process as it is output by ps. -Roberto Sanchez This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]
On (04/01/05 15:14), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: This is the output of the command $ ps aux | grep lpr hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684 pts/1R+ 18:03 0:00 grep lpr hjem:~# Is this the orinterjob I want to cancel, and what is the ProcessID? No. This is the grep process you just ran. The Process ID is 1470. So it would appear that lpr is not running. A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For example: ps aux | grep [l]pr This still lists all the processes that contain the string lpr, but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. Thanks Roberto I really need to hit that regex tutorial ;) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps aux | grep [l]pr This still lists all the processes that contain the string lpr, but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one character exactly the same as the character by itself? Am I missing something blindingly obvious? :) As you point out, the brackets with one character amount to a range of one character. The [l]pr regexp is intrepreted as lpr, but the grep command show up in ps as grep [l]pr. This prevents grep from matching its own process as it is output by ps. /me slaps forehead Thanks, guess I didn't think hard enough. :) Nice trick, BTW... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]
Quoting Michael Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps aux | grep [l]pr This still lists all the processes that contain the string lpr, but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one character exactly the same as the character by itself? Am I missing something blindingly obvious? :) As you point out, the brackets with one character amount to a range of one character. The [l]pr regexp is intrepreted as lpr, but the grep command show up in ps as grep [l]pr. This prevents grep from matching its own process as it is output by ps. /me slaps forehead Thanks, guess I didn't think hard enough. :) Nice trick, BTW... From the grep info manual: 7. Why do people use strange regular expressions on `ps' output? ps -ef | grep '[c]ron' If the pattern had been written without the square brackets, it would have matched not only the `ps' output line for `cron', but also the `ps' output line for `grep'. Note that some platforms `ps' limit the ouput to the width of the screen, grep does not have any limit on the length of a line except the available memory. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) I tried deleting the printer with 'localhost:631' and 'apt-get --purge remove cupsys', yet every time I start my PC the printer start again. Help! What can I do? Best regards, with hopeful wishes from Vegard! You could try: $ ps aux | grep lpr which will list the process ID the kill the process, as root or sudo, with: # kill -9 ProcessID (the number) HTH Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: Network Printer Config
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:02, Larry Smith wrote: I've had to build a new kernel to get Debian to recognize my Lan Card. Now I'm missing the print spooler commands, and there's no printcap file. I've included printer support in the kernel, necessitating including the parallel interface. It appears that during boot, parport sees that I actually have no printer plugged in, and perhaps that's why the printer commands don't appear. In truth I don't have a local printer, but as I understand it, I need the printer commands available (lpr, etc) and a printcap file to be able to communicate with a network printer. How do I get the right stuff into the kernel to support a network printer, and how do I configure it. I'm used to the printtool utility under RedHat that helped me do this. Printing is part of the kernel? Maybe the USB print drivers, and of course you must tell the kernel about parallel ports, but I don't remember seeing printer support per-se in the kernel. Have you installed CUPS? +-+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea | | which could only have originated in California. | | --Edsger Dijkstra | +-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: Network Printer Config
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:02:49PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: I've had to build a new kernel to get Debian to recognize my Lan Card. Now I'm missing the print spooler commands, and there's no printcap file. I've included printer support in the kernel, necessitating including the parallel interface. It appears that during boot, parport sees that I actually have no printer plugged in, and perhaps that's why the printer commands don't appear. In truth I don't have a local printer, but as I understand it, I need the printer commands available (lpr, etc) and a printcap file to be able to communicate with a network printer. How do I get the right stuff into the kernel to support a network printer, and how do I configure it. I'm used to the printtool utility under RedHat that helped me do this. Larry: The printer support in the kernel is for parallen port printers. You probably do not need it. Does your network printer have its own ethernet card? Then it likely supports the lpd protocol for submitting print jobs. Try running nmap (the portscanner, package of same name) on the printer's IP address to see what ports are open. If the 'printer' port is open (number 515/tcp), then you can use my sample princap: lp|tardis|Xerox DocuPrint N17 with duplex:\ :lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/tardis:rm=tardis:rp=tardis:lpr_bounce:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Just replace 'tardis' (my printer's name) with the appropriate name or IP address. This printcap is for the lprng spooler package; apt-get install lprng first, then edit printcap, and restart lprng). Take out the fourth line (the one that contains 'magicfilter') if you will not use any filter, otherwise you must install magicfilter. If you do install magicfilter, you might as well use magicfilterconf to write the printcap for you, then check it by hand if necessary. Another option is to use the pdq spooler. It is very easy to set up using a GUI tool; the downside is that it works on a per-user basis and does not provide the standard lpr/lprm/lpq commands, as lprng does. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp for information. My OpenPGP key: http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc. pgpQQlNwWkaYR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help with printer
Vadim Do you mean: Vadim http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html Vadim I didn't find it to be very helpfull for configurating lpr I agree. However, the LPRng documentation, esp. LPRng-HOWTO, is excellent!! J.
Re: Help with printer
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Jordan wrote: Vadim Do you mean: Vadim http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html Vadim I didn't find it to be very helpfull for configurating lpr I agree. However, the LPRng documentation, esp. LPRng-HOWTO, is excellent!! J. That one is good. I am almost done, but I am getting an error: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 01:32:52.823 Any idea why would I get this error? Thanks. PS: debian:~# ls -l /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 Nov 30 10:23 /dev/lp0
Re: Help with printer
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: Hey, just parallel port support isn't enough (that could apply to parallel IDE, etc). In the CHARACTER DEVICES section of the kernel config, there is an option PARALLEL PRINTER SUPPORT that you need to say yes to Hope that helps, Cameron Matheson This partaly help. Now printing jobs goes to nowere: debian:~# lpr test debian:~# lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson Stylus Color 440' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job 'cfA416debian' removed at 22:05:04.955 Filter_status: waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Any recomendation at this point? Thanks.
Re: Help with printer
Hey, do you have lp support enabled in the kernel (grep dmesg for lp0)? Try doing 'insmod lp' and then printing. I have it as a part of the kernel (parallel port support and PC-style hardware). 'insmod lp' doesn't work. Have you read the printing HOWTO? Do you mean: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html I didn't find it to be very helpfull for configurating lpr Cameron Matheson --- Vadim Kutsyy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got my hands to try to fix printer. I have Epson Stylus color 440. Right now it doens't print: debian:~# lpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 715 test 0 bytes Any recomendation were I would start (or a refference to a documatation)? I am running unstable, and my printcap is: lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
