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Old 11-16-2002, 07:37 PM   #1
jkcunningham
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Here's a weird one -


I can't kill my printer.

Okay, before you tell me to do lprm, etc. I've already tried that. I even deleted the queue and spooler directory. Something is feeding this printer garbage and I can't find it. lpq and lpc status both say there are no printers, let alone anything in them.

It all started when I had a print server set up using lprng (suse 8.1). It worked okay. I should have left it alone. But I wanted to learn about CUPS, so I installed the cups drivers (first de-installed lprng). I went through the process of configuring a queue for the printer (Epson Stylus Color 400) and went to turn it on so I could print a test page. When I powered it up garbage started coming out. There were no visible jobs in the queue for the printer. I'd power it off, try everything I could think of to kill the queue, but it keeps printing garbage everytime I power it back on.

I even disconnected the network connection - no difference.

Where could the rogue spooler be located? I can't find Is it possible there is a residual lpr spooler somewhere that still needs to be deleted? I can't find anything that says where that would be? Help!
 
  


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