[ale] the printer job that wouldn't die

[Geoffrey]

Jim Philips wrote:
> I am running CUPS on KDE. This isn't the first time this has happened
> to me. I start a print job and something goes wrong. The printer
> starts spitting out pages with a single line of characters and
> nothing else. If I try to kill the job, there doesn't seem to be
> anything to kill. I can stop the printer. But when it starts again,
> the pages start spitting out the same way. If I type lprm as root, I
> get:
> 
> lprm: Unable to cancel job(s)!
> 
> If I try lpq, it doesn't report any jobs in the queue, so there is
> nothing I can kill. I tried killing cupsd. When it starts again, the
> pages start spitting out again. The only thing I know to do is to
> remove the printer and reinstall it. Is there any way I can just find
> this job and kill it?

I've had this problem in the past, but can't actually recall the 
specific solution.  I know I killed a process, but can't recall what it 
was.  Do a 'ps aux|grep lp' and see if you see something that you didn't 
otherwise try to terminate.

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Until later, Geoffrey