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

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: William Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 direct

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

2006-02-16 Thread 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 c

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

2006-02-16 Thread 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

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

2006-02-16 Thread 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 print

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

2006-02-16 Thread 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 pa