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On 16 February 2006 09:56, Robert Persson wrote: |
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> My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as |
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> text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. |
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> Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. |
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> Tried to rmmod parport_pc and lp, but was refused. Tried pressing the stop |
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> and reset buttons on the printer many times. Nothing doing. The only thing |
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> that stops the flow is disconnecting the parallel cable. |
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One of the very few shortcomings of cups is that it is very hard to delete an |
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active print job. :-( |
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> I'm about to reboot, hoping that that will do the trick. But surely there's |
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> a way to stop the diarrhoea without rebooting, isn't there? |
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Don't, it won't help. Do a "ps ax | less" and try to find everything remotely |
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related to printing and converting. Kill all those processes - there will be |
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several. |
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Uwe |
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Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? |
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