On 18 Jun 2004 at 1:03, Bob Stia wrote:
> Hello Slugggers,
>
> Hope you are all having a better day than I am.
>
> Running SuSE 8.2, KDE 3.2.3.Epson Color Stylus 600 and lpr. Couple of
> days ago Printed a spreadsheet in Open Office. Spit out all of the
> different sheets even though I didn't ask for them all. Then started
> to print pages and pages of gibberish code. Then looked in Print Jobs
> to try to kill the job but there was no job to be killed. Turned the
> printer off.
>
> Tonight wanted to print something else and as soon as I turned the
> printer on it started to output those pages of gibberish code. I said
> to myself, I'll just keep feeding the same two pieces of paper over and
> over until whatever this thing is quits.
>
> Wellllll.....Sat for at least 45 minutes feeding the same two pieces of
> paper over and over and it still did not quit. Just turned it off
> again. Looked in Print Jobs again, now there was a job called (stdin)
> ( job 282) which preceded my new job. I removed it from the printer
> queue but when I turned the printer back on it continued the same
> gibberish. Then tried every command I could think of to kill that job.
> (282) Nothing worked.
>
> Need help. Where are these files queued so that I can just delete it,
> or how do I kill a job that refuses to be killed? Would be nice to go
> in and just stop a job that has gone crazy on you right away. Doesn't
> seem possible to do that.
>
> Bob S.
>
> PS Not the first time this has happened.
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The magic printer reset it ye ole power cable, and
loke someone already said, stop lpr. I would pull
the power cable first in order to stop the
printer, then kill lpr.
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