Hi all,

So the printing just siezed up one day, and refuses to come back.
The printing software is telling me that HP1015 is Paused. And that Job 28 is in a state of "Pending: printer stopped".
Normally, I would have expected a cancel job type operation to clear this out, but it
doesn't work. Whenever I boot up (its a laptop), I get the same red exclaimation icon on the graphic of the printer.

Any ideas? I suppose all I'm trying to do is get the system to forget it ever heard of Job 28.
Any way to get it to do that definitively?

Thanks,

Declan [using ProMepis 2004 beta2, by the way, with Gnome 2.8]

Have you tried turning the printer itself off for a few minutes to see if the job will go away?
good luck.

Thanks for the reply. It's true: I hadn't tried that.
Now I have, but to no avail.

Surely there's some file somethere that can be deleted, or edited, or something.

No ideas?

Alternatively, if there's a simple (stress: simple) guide to the basics of printing on a Linux system, with a troubleshooting focus, that'd be great too. I searched, and found what I found most interesting, but it didn't lead me towards a solution.

Thanks,

Declan

What system did you setup printing with? If it it was cups, you can kill it from there. Then try turning the printer off for a few minutes to let the memory drain.
good luck.